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

> There are some curiosities, also,
> in the treatise. For examaple, ON verr ('man'/'being'/etc. is from
> Proto-Norse *weraz from PIE *wiros), where the vowel is natural a,
> not the i-mutation of a (i.e. short æ), is written with a short æ in
> the treatise in the same section you quote from (the letter used is
> e with a small hook under it = short æ). This really does not work
> etymologically speaking and my better judgement tells me that it is
> not correct.

Einar Haugen suggests the open vowel here is due to the influence
of /r/. I don't know if there's any evidence to support this.

Llama Nom