Re: Neigh

These words are onomatopoeic and would be recognized as such by
the ordinary speaker. So I would expect that if the ordinary sound
changes for borrowing between languages or evolution in one language
lead away from the equine there would a strong tendency to restore it.
Would this at least partly explain what you see as a mess?
Dan

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> I came across this mess
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> http://www.woxikon.com/swe/gn%E4gga.php
> French hennir
> Dutch hinniken
> Italian nitrire
> Swedish gn�gga
> DEO:
> No. kneggja
> Icel. hneggja
> OE hn�gan
> Engl. neigh
> and (?)
> Spanish, Portuguese relinchar (? < *-ninch-)
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> Is there any way to connect them?
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> Torsten
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