Re: The etymology of herold

W dniu 2010-01-20 03:19, dgkilday57 pisze:

> One problem I have is that <t> might represent /d/. Also <ei>, if an
> actual diphthong, where Proto-Gmc. already had /i:/. And <h> might
> conceivably be Celtic /p/ on its way to zero. That is, the text could be
> Illyrian or Celtic as well as Germanic.

One additional difficulty is that about 200 BC (Proto-)Germanic *x would
still have been a velar fricative, even word-initially. I'd expect it to
have been represented as Etruscan/Raetic /x ~ kH/ (the "psi" character)
rather than /h/.

Piotr