From: bmscotttg
Message: 65486
Date: 2009-12-02
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:
[...]
> I like that. Gmc. *xu:rjo: 'payment, land-tax' would originally
> be 'payment for housing', pre-shifted *ku:syá: beside *kú:som
> 'house, housing, building'. The restriction of *xu:rjo: and
> *xu:rjan 'to pay for services, house, hire' to the NWB area
> suggests that feudalism was imposed there when the Germans took
> over, AFTER Grimm and Verner, with terminology that became obsolete
> elsewhere.
'Feudalism' is not a well-defined term. (See, for instance,
Susan Reynolds, Fiefs and Vassals.)
[...]
>>> Er verwechselt s und r sehr haeufig; so schreibt er z.b.
>>> 'videmus' statt 'videmur',
>> Could be bad grammar, not Schreibfehler.
> Or simple absent-mindedness, writing 'we see' for the less common
> 'we seem'. I have not yet looked at the full text.
Note that in many medieval hands long-r and long-s are very similar.
It would be easy to write (or read) one for the other.
Brian