Re: HERG / HEARG : BEOWULF'S SACRED GROVE & C. ARABIC "HRG"

> > Are you aware
> > that
> > h is any IE language
> > other than Anatolian
> > can *never* correspond
> > to PAA or semitic H ?
> >
> > Arnaud
> >
> That is, assuming the word is inherited PIE. Doesn't apply if it's a

loan.

>
> Torsten
>
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>
> Yes
> I wrote "correspond"
> it relates to cognates
>
> so
> you mean English Hearg
> is a loanword from Arabic ?
>
> Arnaud
>
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>

It might be a loan from a Semitic language (eg. Phoenician) into some
NWEuropean language that became a substrate to (NW)Germanic.

Torsten

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It can be related to *log and
Latin lig-nus "wood",
So you may add it
to the funny list of r/l words
beside hartia "shoulder"
herg "tree grove" < H-leg-
and hering "fish"
and shark < *s-kol "fish"

Do you have a reference on-line
for old and middle English words ?
Thnx

Arnaud
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