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

True, but I think it's more likely related to the root
of Latin carcer

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
> <fournet.arnaud@...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: tgpedersen
> >
> > > 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
> >
> > ==========
> >
> > Yes
> > I wrote "correspond"
> > it relates to cognates
> >
> > so
> > you mean English Hearg
> > is a loanword from Arabic ?
> >
> > Arnaud
> >
> > =================
> >
> 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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