From: Rick McCallister
Message: 61499
Date: 2008-11-09
--- On Sun, 11/9/08, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
*taikuraz 'brother-in-law' is an
> unquestionable native
> exception to the *T..T prohibition. It's clear that the
> *k derives
> somehow from PIE *w, but anyway it must have contained
> *daigur- at the
> time of Grimm's Law. Post-Kluge Proto-Germanic also had
> a few words like
> *taikna- 'token'.
>
> Piotr
Is it a contamination from *taikna- in the sense of "pledge, arrhes"? Would it have been reanalyzed ss "pledger, one who has paid dowry"?