From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 54964
Date: 2008-03-10
----- Original Message -----
From: tgpedersen
>
> However, the roots in Dutch haring "herring" and paling "eel" don't
> exist in Dutch. How come they have no umlaut then? Analogy?
>
> Torsten
>
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>
> Substrate word ?
>
> Arnaud
>
If they are, then *-inga- <*-en-ko- is substrate too, probably Vasconic.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/31515
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/36030
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/36297
Torsten
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I must say that your connection
between English Gerund and
supposedly Vasconic -inga
does not look good.
Considering the fact that some varieties of
southern early middle English more or less
fused : slep-ende and a-slep-ing < on-sleping
into slep-ing > sleeping,
this is a completely autonomous developpement
of English which owes nothing to nobody.
I suppose somebody else already made
this objection.
Arnaud
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