Re: 'Edge'og

>But if you add a NWBlock *-ok, as found in other English animal
>names, you get *id3ok-. That's a good start for a folk-etymology.

Perhaps this reflects a phenomenon/relic that transcends the NWBlock,
to linguistic areas not influenced by this substrate.

>Folk-etymologies often are.

Indeed. (It might be possible even for the Hungarian word üveg
to have been "modelled" according to folk-etymologic perception,
or at least that the auxiliary vowel /ae/ inserted between /v/ and /g/
made the average Hungarian think of -eg as being a typical
Hungarian substantival ending (as in the words üreg "cavity",
méreg "poison", hideg "cold").

George