Re: [sv] pistasch

On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:00:58 GMT, John Atkinson
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sci.lang:

Brian M. Scott wrote:
John Atkinson wrote:

[...]

BTW, I noticed the following doublet corresponding to
English shaft: As well as sjakt/schakt (borrowed from
German Schacht), Scandinavian also has skaft (presumably
native) --

ON <skapt>.

and German has Schaft (from Low German??)

OHG <scaft>.

OK. And the proto-germanic was *skapto-, I see. But
what's the story with <Schacht>?

Haven't time tonight to go digging, but off the top of my
head it looks like an instance of /f/ > /x/ as in Dutch
<achter> 'behind', so it's probably from MLG.

Brian
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