From: dgkilday57
Message: 65692
Date: 2010-01-19
>But forms with -nd- are cited from OE, OS, OFris, and OHG. I am not aware of such widespread "epenthetic innovations" with 'king' and other phonetically similar words. If the Baltic and Slavic forms require *pening(az), perhaps we must postulate -n- in the OLG form, like the West Saxon one. Whatever WGmc form spread through trade to B. and S. was not necessarily the most conservative form.
> At 5:20:41 PM on Friday, January 15, 2010, dgkilday57 wrote:
>
> > But I speculate further that Gaulish may have borrowed
> > NWBlock *panda: 'balance-pan', a deverbative related to
> > Latin <pendo:> 'I hang, weigh', in the generic sense
> > 'pan'. It could then be connected with WGmc *pandam
> > 'pledge, security, guaranty' (OFris <pand>, OHG <pfant>,
> > etc.) if the latter is borrowed from the NWB for '(fixed)
> > weight, (fixed) value' vel sim. The form *pandingaz 'coin
> > having fixed weight, standard coin' would then have been
> > created in WGmc using the productive coin-suffix *-ingaz.
>
> Boutkan & Siebinga, Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary s.v.
> <panni(n)g>, mention 'such early BS. loans as Lith.
> <pìningas>, OCS <pe^ne,(d)zU> "money", which seem to
> indicate that the form without <d> is the older one'.
> Boutkan suggests that 'the forms containing -d- are perhaps
> epenthetic innovations'.