Re: The OIT state of the art

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

>
> At 3:59:39 AM on Friday, September 19, 2008, Arnaud Fournet
> wrote:
>
> > Anyway, the premise of Venneman that words should only
> > travel from south to north at that time is wrong.
>
> > Norse Marhshalk > OF marechal > E Marshall
>
> The OFr isn't from ON; it's from Late Latin <mariscalcus>,
> attested in the 6th century in the sense 'groom' and in the
> 9th century as 'commander of an army'. This in turn is from
> the Continental Gmc. compound represented by OHG
> <marahskalk> and OSax. <maraskalk>.

Why marah- (excuse my suspicious nature)? How Germanic is that? Or if
it is, who serves the stallions? And how specifically Germanic is *skalk-?
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/49768

Etymology proposal: skal "duty, debt" + -k individuator (otherwise -Vk
in NWB), thus: "debtor, servant"

BTW scelus, sceleris and scelestus: s-stem plus t-adj; a favorite of
Venetic, whence all the -st- place names (eg. seges-, segest-; venus,
venust-).


Torsten