From: tgpedersen
Message: 61958
Date: 2008-12-08
>Du. leeuwerik.
> --- 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?