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Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <richard.wordingham@...>
> To: <Nostratica@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003
7:49 PM
> Subject: [Nostratica] Re: General
Rule
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> > Have you looked at the meanings
on the 100 word list? 'Egg' and
> 'skin' are Norse, 'give' is more
Norse than Old English, 'mountain'
is Romance. I will allow that the
English word for 'person' is 'man'.
>
> "Root" and "die" are also Norse,
"round" is French, and the origin
of "big", "kill", "bird" and "dog"
is uncertain.
OE had 'wesan dead' = 'die', and
Onions' Oxford Etymological
Dictionary doesn't rule out OE
*diegan or *degan as a possible,
unattested origin. 'kill' may be
doublet of OE cwellan 'kill', and
has E. Frisian cognate kuellen
'vex, strike, beat', the same
meaning as 'kill' when first
attested (C XIII)
Richard.