Re[2]: [tied] Nori

At 5:19:10 PM on Sunday, September 14, 2008, Andrew Jarrette
wrote:

> --- 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:>;

Of course it doesn't. It says nothing at all about that
relationship. It does mean that Watkins was no longer
willing to trace <cild> back to a PIE root, however.

> I see no reason to retract the posited kinship to
> these Gothic words; perhaps it was just for economy.

Not at all likely, since it's also not in his Dictionary of
Indo-European Roots.

Brian