Re: Scientist's etymology vs. scientific etymology
From: Brian M. Scott Message: 59202 Date: 2008-06-11
At 5:03:53 PM on Tuesday, June 10, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:
>> Scots Gaelic has aspirated and pre-aspirated stops, which
>> it acquired from Old Norse.
> Old Norse had that? Please explain.
You could start with Pétur Helgason's 2002 doctoral thesis,
_Preaspiration in the Nordic Languages: Synchronic and
diachronic aspects_; it's available in PDF at
<http://www.lingfil.uu.se/personal/petur/research.html>.