Re: *ka/unt- etc, new conquests, correction

From: Torsten
Message: 65271
Date: 2009-10-20

I recall from Grimm's German dictionary that German Kante f. was a
loan from Dutch/Low German (probably Dutch kant, kanten became German Kante, Kanten by false division of the un-German plural)

Torsten

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