RE : [tied] Re: North of the Somme

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

>
> > Considering the semantic narrowness, it is tempting to include
> > German Fichte "fir" etc; and then on to Sw. bek "pitch" etc etc.
>
> Sorry, that's
> ON bik,
> Sw. beck (with Svea-mål gemination),
> No. bek,
> Da. beg
> ODa. bik, pik,
> OS pik,
> OHG peh,
> German Pech
> Eng. pitch
> etc.
>
> supposed a loan from
> Lat pix, picis "pitch"

Well, this is interesting, all right.

I see that you are light-years ahead of me on the Finno-Ugric stuff. I should probably take a few days off to look at it.

DGK