From: dgkilday57
Message: 69767
Date: 2012-06-05
>Lucky for you, Torsten is on vacation. Hans Kuhn's NWB substrate does not work this way. It preserves inherited PIE */p/, unlike Celtic, and loans words to post-Grimm's Law lowland West Germanic, so that the latter has a few words with initial /p/ which would have initial /f/ by ordinary inheritance. You can find examples in Kuhn's paper "Anlautend P im Germanischen".
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> As many other Germanic words with initial p-, 'plug' is possibly a NWB
> loanword corresponding to native 'block':
> block (n.)
> <http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=block&allowed_in_frame=0>
> "solid piece," c.1300, from O.Fr. bloc "log, block" of wood (13c.), via
> M.Du. bloc "trunk of a tree" or O.H.G. bloh, from a common Germanic
> source, from PIE *bhlugo-, from *bhelg- "a thick plank, beam" (see balk
> <http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=balk&allowed_in_frame=0> ).
> Meaning "mould for a hat" is from 1570s. Slang sense of "head" is from
> 1630s. In cricket from 1825; in U.S. football from 1912. The meaning in
> city block is 1796, from the notion of a "compact mass" of buildings;
> slang meaning "fashionable promenade" is 1869. Extended sense of
> "obstruction" is first recorded 1640s.block (v.)
> <http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=block&allowed_in_frame=0>
> "obstruct," 1590s, from Fr. bloquer "to block, stop up," from O.Fr. bloc
> (see block
> <http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=block&allowed_in_frame=0>
> (n.)). Meaning "to make smooth or to give shape on a block" is from
> 1620s. Stage and theater sense is from 1961. Sense in cricket is from
> 1772; in U.S. football from 1889. Related: Blocked; blocking
> <http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=blocking&allowed_in_frame=0> .
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