Re: Gothic mimz? < *me:mso-

On 2008-04-21 12:06, Joao S. Lopes wrote:

> Is Gothic mimz expected? Why not *minz or *minz? Is this preservation of
> M before z regular? There are attempts to link Mi:mir with mimz... May
> we assume a s-name like *me:ms, *me:mos- ?

/m/ does not assimilate as easily as /n/. The Germanic reflexes of *-mt-
are different from those of *-nt-, so there is no reason why *-ms-
should not have been preserved as well. Th 'meat' word shows, in fact,
that that it _was_ preserved.

Piotr