From: Tavi
Message: 65344
Date: 2009-11-01
-- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:
>Hi, Douglas!
> Regarding the putative connection between Old English <hentan>, <huntian> and Gothic <fra-hinþan> etc., the OED (s.v. <hunt>) refers the reader to A.S. Napier, "Old English Notes" (MQLL 1:130-131, 1898):
>
With regard to Gothic /hinþan/, Bomhard (2008) reconstruct a pseudo-PIE **kem-t- 'to size, to grasp' (#358), cognate to AA *kam- 'to hold, grasp'. But unlike him, I consider this as a borrowing which also gave PIE *ghe(n)dh- 'to take'.
Pairs of the type *ghe(n)dh- ~ **kemt- or *ghabh- ~ *kab- are to be considered as AA loanwords in PIE.