Re: Identity of the 'language of geminates'

At 3:52:12 PM on Saturday, October 18, 2008, tgpedersen
wrote:

[...]

> Hellquist's text
> http://runeberg.org/svetym/0462.html
> is

[...]

> Nära besl. med det senare är sannol. mlty. (hals)quarder,
> querdar m., rand, infatt- ning, varifrån sv. dial. kvard,
> bred fåll, linning, no. kvarde, ä. da. korde; i så fall
> egentl.: hals, sedan: halskrage o. d., alltså med samma
> betyd.-utveckling som i krage.'

> sannol(ikt) = likely.

Exactly.

> Hellquist doesn't seem too convinced here of a derivation
> "swallow" > "edge". Nor am I.

There's nothing more to be said if you insist on a wilful
misreading of the text; I understand <sannolikt> 'likely,
probably' to mean exactly what it says. Had it been
<möjligt>, you'd have had a point -- but in that case I'd
not have said 'So does Hellquist'.

Brian