Re: Bear (Was: HORSA vs. EXWA)

From: stlatos
Message: 70825
Date: 2013-01-29

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
>
> W dniu 2013-01-22 05:57, Brian M. Scott pisze:
>
> > 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.
>
> Why? Isn't it what early OE _hs_ regularly becomes? To be sure, the only
> example of OE -rhs-/-rcs-/-rx- I can think of is _neorhsen_ as in
> _neorhsna-wang_ 'paradise' (no generally accepted etymology despite
> several suggestions).


The only suggestion I know of is * ne-weorxna-wang "not-suffering field" = place w/o suffering, perhaps < weorcsum (adj) = painful , or sim. It's hard to imagine it would be anything very different.