Re: Kuhn's ar-/ur-language

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <

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> cf ON oddi "landspitze etc"
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> For the benefit of those who don't live in an archipelago I'll show
> some exaples of what Da. 'odde' is:
> http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odde
> http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sj%C3%A6llands_Odde
> http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billede:Denmark_location_map.svg
> And Skagens Odde is the headland on top of Jutland.
> An 'odde' is usually flat. Hilly headlands are called 'næs'
> The situation is this: If your boat is sufficiently light and rickety,
> you have an actual choice between sailing it around the headland and
> dragging it across it. Hence the dual sense "pointy thing"/"leg on a
> journey".
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> That's nice.
> Sand dunes and sunny day. That could give enough ideas to invert a bad
> demographic trend.
> but I cannot see how oddi "landspitze" can derive from *amt or *oN&t

"horn

> or even worse ox&t "way, track"
> What could be the pre-form of ON oddi ?
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The preform of <oddi> is *<uzdan-> (or *uzden-), related to OE <ord>
"point, spear-point, spear; source, beginning; front, vanguard; chief,
prince", OHG <ort> "Spitze, Ecke, Ende, Endpunkt, Rand" (NHG <Ort>
"place, locality" < *"point" (perhaps on a map)), OS <ord> "Spitze".
Cf. ON <oddr> "Spitze, Speer, Anführer> and <oddi> also "ungerade
Zahl" (> English <odd>).

Andrew