Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"

On 2008-03-10 01:39, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

> >*tekW-n-ó-.
>
> But shouldn't Kluge have applied to that as well?

I assume *-kWn-' > *-gWn-' > *-wn- before the assimilation of nasals (as
in *h2agWnó- > OE e:anian (denominative) or *sekW-ní- > *siuni-, plus
the sporadic hardening of *w > *G as in OE nigon '9' (see the link in my
previous post).

> Just a thought: could *þegnaz be a borrowing from Celtic
> (after Kluge's law, but before t(h) > þ)? Perhaps *teg-nós
> "he of the house"?

A thought worth following.

Piotr