From: Rick McCallister
Message: 53092
Date: 2008-02-14
> At 12:58:29 AM on Thursday, February 14, 2008, Rick____________________________________________________________________________________
> McCallister wrote:
>
> > --- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
>
> >> At 12:16:55 AM on Thursday, February 14, 2008,
> Rick
> >> McCallister wrote:
>
> >>> What peaks my curiosity is why words with
> glottal stop
> >>> in Scandinavian were borrowed into pre-Finnish
> with /k/
>
> >> Examples? In other words, how do you know what
> words in
> >> NGmc. had glottal stops?
>
> > Presumibly it was proto-Germanic at the time
>
> > pre-Finnish kaska-
> > from same root as English ash
>
> I'm not aware of this *kaska-, and a bit of quick
> searching
> turns up nothing except Finnish <ahku> 'ash ball'.
>
> Brian
>
>
>