Re: 'Edge'og [was: Re: Clueless roolz...]

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> Rick McCallister pisze:
>
> > No chance it could be a folk etymology? I'm
> assuming
> > there were hedgehogs in the British Isles before
> the
> > 15th century.
>
> Funny. I used to take it for granted that <hedgehog>
> was a
> folk-etymological rationalisation of something
> related to *h1eg^Hjo-. I
> no longer think so. The OE reflex of *h1eg^Hjo-
> would have been +icg,
> and there's no evidence at all for such a word. If
> you've ever heard
> hedgehogs doing their usual grunts and snuffles in a
> shrubbery, their
> modern English name becomes self-explanatory.
>
> Piotr
>

Never seen or heard them. There aren't any in the US
and here in El Salvador, they'd be on the dinner plate
and extinct in no time



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