From: Torsten
Message: 65698
Date: 2010-01-19
>It is?
> At 4:10:00 AM on Monday, January 18, 2010, Torsten wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> > <BMScott@> wrote:
>
> >> At 3:38:19 AM on Friday, January 15, 2010, Torsten wrote:
>
> >>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> >>> <BMScott@> wrote:
>
> >>>> At 5:08:35 AM on Wednesday, January 13, 2010, Torsten
> >>>> wrote:
>
> >>>>> Wouldn't one expect **xarja-wald-, not *xari-wald?
>
> >>>> In PGmc., but not in OFrk.
>
> >>> That is interesting. Could you to elaborate on that?
>
> >> PGmc. *xarjaz > *xariz > OHG heri.
>
> >> Morlet has the very early <Charivaldus>.
>
> > Well, I gathered that, but got the perhaps false
> > impressions from your posting that leaving out the
> > composition vowel was a general Frankish thing?
>
> It isn't left out: it's <i>, the usual composition vowel of
> OHG i-, ja-, jô-, jan-, and jôn-stems.