-k-, correction

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
>
> > >> And in Gmc. [ON <þorskr> 'codfish'] has a perfectly good
> > >> etymology, from *þurs- (PIE *ters- 'to dry').
> >
> > > Would that be with a k-suffix?
> >
> > Yes. Krahe & Meid III, §194.1 note that deadjectival
> > derivation of verbs via a Gmc. k-suffix is especially
> > frequent in ON, offering the pairs <dýrka> ~ <dýrr>,
> > <blíðka> ~ <blíðr>, <minnka> ~ <minnr>, <seinka> ~ <seinn>,
> > <víðka> ~ <víð>, <þurka> ~ <þurr>, and <samka> ~ <samr>.
>
> But those are verbs, Brian. You may have noticed þurka, Sw torka
> "dry" v.. There's no s there, and there is no verb **þurska. How do
> you want to connect that to þorskr? Your etymology may be right, but
> it's not Germanic.

However, Dan. mindske, Sw, minska etc.

> Perhaps *þurr-fiskr > þurfskr > þorskr, cf. the town on Sjælland
> Skælskør < (supposedly) Skælfisk-ør, and Aikio 'On Germani-Saami
> contacts and Saami prehistory' has a Northern Saami skálz^u
> "seashell" < NwSaami ska:lc^o:, and Kola Saami ka:l:3^ "seashell" <
> *ka:lc^o: which he wants to be a loan from PScand *skaljo: (> ON
> skel "shell, crust") with a correspondence Saami c^ <-> PScand j
> which he isn't too happy about; perhaps there was a
> PScand *skal-sk- ?

Torsten