From: tgpedersen
Message: 62966
Date: 2009-02-10
>*õz^t-n- > *ust-n-> *usn- is not a problem.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > > 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.
> >
>
> Maybe, but Kluge compares *uzda- to Lith <usnìs> "thistle" and
> Albanian <ut> (his spelling) "ear of corn", suggesting a
> pre-pre-form
> *us-.