Re: *ka/unt- etc, new conquests, a whole bundle of them

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

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "andythewiros" <anjarrette@>
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
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> >> That *xarug- thing [...]
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> > I see it's never been considered an u-stem. Is OIcel. <hörgr> an
> > a-stem in OIcel.?
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> Cleasby & Vigfusson, Zoëga, Fritzner, and Köbler all make it an
> a-stem. In _Deutsche Mythologie_ Jakob Grimm gives a nom. pl.
> <hergir>, which would make it a u-stem, but I've not found that
> in any other source, and I don't know his justification. On the
> other hand, Campbell says that OE <hearg> is a u-stem that's been
> mostly assimilated to the a-stem declension.
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> Brian
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Thks.

AJ