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Well that's another niggling little thought cleared up
Thanks Brian - I hope to be back later this year and
keeping in touch is very important to me.
I shall be very rusty - when I get some free time, but
looking forward to resuming the Old Norse again.
Kveðja
Patricia
-------Original Message-------
From: Brian M. Scott
Date: 19/02/2010 21:29:05
To: Patti (Wilson)
Subject: Re[2]: [norse_course] Laxdaela ch 55 At 8:38:18 AM on Friday, February 19, 2010, Patti (Wilson)
wrote:
No, <blanket> is a borrowing of Old French <blankete>, a
diminutive of <blanc> 'white'. It first appears in Middle
English around 1300, with the meaning 'a kind of woolen
cloth (often white or undyed)'. Old French <blanc> and its
Romance cognates (e.g., Spanish <blanco> and Italian
<bianco>) are from an early borrowing of a Germanic
adjective meaning 'white, shining', something like *blankaz
or *blenkaz; this is the source of ON <blakkr> 'pale,
dun-colored; matte black'. ON <blæja>, on the other hand,
is from a Germanic *blahjô- or the like. Any relationship
between the two words would be exceedingly remote, if it
existed at all.
Brian
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