Re: Evidence for Nostratic? (was Re: Proto-Uralic?)
| From: | Tristan <kesuari@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 10, 2003, 15:00 |
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On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 22:07, John Cowan wrote:
> (ModE "harp", BTW, is only partly a descendant of OE "hearpe"; it
> probably owes its vowel to French "harpe", which is itself a
> Common Romance borrowing from Germanic.)
Wouldn't the -earp- have been a candidate for shortening, leaving *herpe
which would've become 'harp' anyway? (cf. steorra > star). Or am I
missing something else?
--
Tristan.
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