Re[2]: [tied] 'Dug' from PIE? (was: Rg Veda Older than Sanskrit)

At 5:39:56 PM on Sunday, April 20, 2008, Piotr Gasiorowski
wrote:

> On 2008-04-20 21:59, Brian M. Scott wrote:

>> OE had all sorts of geminates. This particular one,
>> however, is a problem. And do note that I'm specifically
>> addressing Patrick's proposal, *not* casting about in search
>> of an etymology. (Yours is a non-solution to the more
>> general problem anyway: at this point, at least, it's just a
>> fancy way of saying 'We don't know where this came from'.)

> If one desperately needs an etymology extending beyond
> Early Modern English, a borrowing from Scandinavian
> (dæggja- 'suckle' = Goth. daddjan < *ðajja-, from the
> causative of *dHeh1i-) is a thinkable starting point. To
> be sure, no *deggen is attested in Middle English and it
> isn't clear what analogical process could have produced
> dug(*ge) as a deverbal noun, but for all its weaknesses it
> still looks more promising that a *dHeugH- connection.

Yep; if I could have thought of any way to justify the
vowel, I'd have suggested it as at least worth considering.

Brian