Re: Bear (Was: HORSA vs. EXWA)

At 7:51:43 PM on Monday, January 21, 2013, Richard
Wordingham wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister wrote:
>> --- On Mon, 1/21/13, Brian M. Scott wrote:

>>>> Supposing we had "Kurganic" bears in English instead of
>>>> regular old bears and bruins, would it be something
>>>> like **arth or **archt or **arght????

>>> I think that I'd expect *h2r'ktsos to yield PGmc.
>>> *urhsaz or *urhtaz.

>> So in Hypothetical-English, we'd come up with
>> **urkser or **urther or maybe **urks or **urth ???

> I think we'd get *orxes or *roughts.

R-metathesis in *orht seems likely enough, yielding *roht
and quite possibly *rought. I can't find anything to give a
good indication of what *orhs might have done, with or
without r-metathesis, but I'm skeptical of *hs > *ks.

Brian