Re: question - Turco-Japanese (British Vikings, 400 AD)

John Cowan wrote:

> Vocabulary, though, is a different matter.  English
> borrowed thousands
> of words from Old Norse: such ordinary words as
> "uncle" and "sky" are
> of Old Norse origin.  In some cases, the cognates of
> these words
> already existed in English, as in the Norse
> borrowing "skirt" next to
> the native word "shirt".  (Words beginning "sk" are
> almost always
> borrowings, because a sound-change during the Old
> English period
> changed initial "sk" to "sh".)
Agreed to all the above, except "uncle". Isn't "uncle"
a French word  from Latin  "avunculus"?

Elliott


		
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