--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "xigung" <xigung@...> wrote:

> --- In norse_course "Marco Moretti" wrote:
> >
> > There is nothing able to justify a connection with /*kwin-/. The
> > ablaut is quite different in the word for woman: Gothis

has /qino/

> > and /qens/, etc...
>
> Hi Marco,
> I thought that the idea of ablaut was only related to verbs.
> Yet here you seem to be applying it to a noun?
> Please explain.
>
> Best regards
> Xigung

Hello!

I suggest you a deep study of Old Norse
lexicon, and you'll find a plenty of
similar cases.
Read also books about Indo-European,
the presence of Ablaut in nouns won't
be strange to you.

Best wishes
Marco