Re: OT: Definitely Not YAEPT: English phoneme inventory?
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 17, 2003, 19:50 |
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:24:33PM -0400, John Leland wrote:
> According to my AHD "loch" is Scots Gaelic originally, but borrowed early
> enough that it had an ME form, which would make it a genuine ModEng word
> by my standards.
I'll buy that.
Apparently <loch> and <lake> are cognate, the latter coming into
English from Latin by way of French, the former from Old Irish
by way of Scots Middle English. But I don't see any reconstructed
PIE root for it or any etymology going further back than
Old Irish and Latin.
-Mark