Re: Family terms [was: Kluge's Law in Italic?]

> > MnE <sister> (and some of the pronouns) show Danish influence which
> > was less pervasive in Chaucer's dialect, so this particular
> > comparison is not compelling.
>
> Scandinavian influence accounts for <sister> (rather than *swester),
> but not for <father> and <mother> with the "wrong" intervocalic
> obstruent (fricative rather than plosive).

Ahem. Swedish fader, moder with -d-, Danish with -ð-.


Torsten