Re: [G] and [g] and PIE voiced plosives

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> DEO says Da. dog, Sw. dock are loans from MLG doch, which around 1400
> replaced ODa. tho: < ON þó; ODa. tho: is preserved in the Jysk
> initiating particle / interjection 'to'. That leaves Du. 'toch'
> unexplained.
>

Dutch also has 'doch' ("but" according to an online dictionary).
Maybe 'toch' is from *et-þauh or *eþ-þauh or *ed-þauh, with the same
prefix as either OE 'æthwá' "each person, every person", or as German
'etwas' (OHG 'eddeshwaz', 'etheswaz', 'etewaz', as well as 'eddeshwer,
etewer' "jemand", etc.). Or from *þauh with some other prefix.

Andrew