Re: Neigh

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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:50 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Neigh



--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jonathan Morris <jonatas9@...> wrote:
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> Ah yes, Vennemann, the thinking man's Edo Nyland.

Unfortunately, the article is in German, but the abstract isn'r:
'Abstract
Traditionally, Engl. knife and related Germanic words - Late OE cni:f,
OFris. and MLG kni:f; MDu. cnijf (Du. knijf), ON knífr - have been
derived from an unattested Germanic verbal root *knib-

Do you have a better proposal?

Torsten

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A variant form of PIE *gleubh 'to cut' looks nice.
*kneibh

ON kljufa 'split'

Arnaud