Re: Icelandic 'sem'/Swedish 'som' etymology?

Hi!

Benct Philip Jonsson writes:
> Henrik Theiling skrev:
> > Hi!
> > What is 'sem' in Icelandic derived from?  Or Swedish 'som' or Faroese
> > 'sum' (i.e., the modern North Germanic relative clause particle)?
> > I could not find a convincing etymology online and unfortunately don't
> > seem to have the appropriate books.
>
> Go to <http://tinyurl.com/fkz7l> and look for Root / lemma "sem-2".
> NB there is no space between the hyphen and the 2!
I did not find the relative pronoun cognates in this query.  Why is it
this root the relative pronoun derives from?  I probably missed
something.

> de Vries' "Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch"
Ah.  Expensive as usual.  All books I really want are > 100 EUR, it
seems.  Most > 200 EUR.  Too bad.

> <http://tinyurl.com/ka3gx>.
This is the second time I tried a link to your favorite online book
shop which did not work.  I think you cannot send URLs after you
searched.  The system tells me that my session was expired or
something.  At least nothing that has to do with the book, but an
error message.

Further, I cannot search umlauts in that book store, it seems, so I
had to use something different.

>...
> I looked at bookfinder.com -- they got the first edition
> at € 150...  You don't have anybody to inherit it from as
> I did? ;-)
No.

**Henrik

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