| From: | Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 13, 2001, 18:35 |
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 23:05:54 -0000, Michael Poxon <m.poxon@...> wrote: [...]>and Tolkien pluralised dwarf as dwarves due to its >Germanic antecedents, which possessed a rounded final -w (possiblysomething>like *dwarg(w)) - witness his other compounds such as "Dwarrowdelf" and >modern German Zwerg.I seem to recall that this word was spelled _dweorh_ in Old English Basilius -
| Y.Penzev <isaacp@...> |