Re: Neigh

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

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> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:50 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: Neigh
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jonathan Morris <jonatas9@> wrote:
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> > Ah yes, Vennemann, the thinking man's Edo Nyland.
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> 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-
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> Do you have a better proposal?
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> Torsten
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> A variant form of PIE *gleubh 'to cut' looks nice.
> *kneibh
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> ON kljufa 'split'

Please explain.


Torsten