Re: Kuhn's ar-/ur-language

> > 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 ?
> >
>
> 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>).
>

I'll make the pre-pre-form *an,Wet- > õget- > *õz^t etc then.


Torsten