From: Rick McCallister
Message: 61955
Date: 2008-12-08
> From: Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...>Don't form your opinion yet. Let's see if anyone has access to Coromines, because I'm working from memory. Torsten --if you haven't scanned the whole opus of Coromines, do so at once or I'll sic an exaltation of larks on you. Perhaps there's something Brian can find in the old notes from 10 years ago or so.
> Subject: [tied] Re: Negation
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, December 7, 2008, 6:52 PM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> >
> > Ibero-Romance laverca could only have 4 sources
> > 1. Suevian ==since it's most common in Galician,
> and they ruled
> Galicia c. 409 -525
> > 2. Gothic --since the Goths ruled Hispania c. 416-711
> > 3. Vandalic --ruled much of Spain c. 409-430; but we
> know almost
> nothing about their language
> > 4. Frankish --i.e. a loanword from French or from
> Franks who
> filtered into Spain
> >
>
> OK I got the direction of borrowing wrong.
>
> So from the evidence of <la:werce>/<la:ferce>
> (early form <la:uricæ>)
> and <æ:fre> one can conclude that the change /-wr-/
> > /-vr-/ is
> regular in Old English?
>
> Andrew