Re: Nori

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>
> At 12:37:13 PM on Sunday, September 14, 2008, Arnaud Fournet
> wrote:
>
> > From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
>
> >> At 4:09:16 AM on Sunday, September 14, 2008, Arnaud
> >> Fournet wrote:
>
> >> [...]
>
> >>> Calvert Watkins confidently postulates Common Germanic
> >>> *kiltham.
>
> >> Where?
>
> > The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
> > Edition 1979 : p. 233 child.
> > This is my usual reference on English.
>
> By the 3rd edition he no longer does so: he traces it back
> only to OE <cild>. The same goes for the 4th edition, which
> is available online at <http://bartleby.com/61/>. (The
> entry for <child> may be seen at
> <http://www.bartleby.com/61/13/C0291300.html>.)
>

Doesn't necessarily mean that OE <cild> is unrelated to Goth <kilthei>
and <inkiltho:>; I see no reason to retract the posited kinship to
these Gothic words; perhaps it was just for economy.

AJ

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