From: The Egyptian Chronicles
Message: 68174
Date: 2011-11-02
----- Original Message -----From: TorstenSent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 3:20 AMSubject: [tied] TO KNIT---> was Re: request to Celtic specialists
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> Ishinan: Try this one pertaining to OE. cnyttan/ Dan. knytte "to knit"
> and compare it to the Classical Arabic "qntr"
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> http://www.theegyptianchronicles.com/LINKS/KNIT.html
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What are the sources you are using there? It seems that the source on Arabic is already doing a comparison to Germanic *knu:t-ja-, *knutt-ja-.
Torsten