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Re: CHAT: Lost (was: Azurian.)

From:Eugene Oh <un.doing@...>
Date:Friday, August 10, 2007, 2:47
2007/8/10, Alex Fink <a4pq1injbok_0@...>:
> Sounds like _foremost_. http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=foremost says > | O.E. fyrmest "earliest, first, most prominent," from P.Gmc. *formo- > | (related to O.E. fruma "beginning"), superl. of the root of Eng. fore + > | additional superl. suffix -est. Cf. O.Fris. formest, Goth. frumists. > | Altered on the assumption that it is a compound of fore and most. > > Alex >
Wait a minute, I thought P.Gmc wasn't supposed to have /o/, or was I mistaken? Eugene

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