Re: CHAT: Lost (was: Azurian.)

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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