Re: Negau

On 2008-09-27 17:53, tgpedersen wrote:

> Zbigniew Gol/a,b: The Origin of the Slavs, pp 366-8

> ...First of all it should be stated that Germc. *plo:ga-, the alleged
> source of PSlav. plugU, has no convincing etymology in that linguistic
> group, so it is unmotivated from the Germanic standpoint. Besides
> that, it was primarily restricted to German.

I agree that it has no internal Germanic etymology, but I don't see why
it should be regarded as restricted to German, primarily or otherwise.
<plo:g ~ plo:h> is found in Old English, <plógr> in Old Icelandic. The
OE word was used mainly as a measure of area in the preserved texts ('a
plough of land'), but there's nothing German about it.

Piotr