From: Torsten
Message: 65617
Date: 2010-01-10
>Unless of course you accept that *himil- etc is not Germanic.
>
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@> wrote:
> >
> > At 9:19:31 PM on Thursday, January 7, 2010, dgkilday57
> > wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > >>> In <himilizzi> usw. the Gmc. suffix *-itja apparently
> > >>> functions as a collective, parallel to its use in OE
> > >>> <Elmet> 'Elmwood' (cf. Kluge, Nom. Stammb. 2. Aufl. 36).
> >
> > I meant to address this before. My understanding is that
> > the OE name is borrowed from Brit. *Elmet- (whence <Elfed>,
> > the name of a cantref in Dyfed), and that Hamp at some point
> > suggested that a Brit. *lim(-e:ton) 'elm-grove' might be
> > involved.
>
> All right, that works well, and explains the isolation of <Elmet>, which thus cannot be used as a parallel to <himilizzi>.