[gothic-l] Re: Name origin and meaning

[sverre_johnsen at HOTMAIL.COM]

> >"Entirely"? Icelandic have some words of non-germanic origin, like 
> >"bíl" (bílur?) for "car".
> >
> It is 'bíll' in the nominative ('bilur' is Faroese).

But it's pronounced /bi:l/? I just assumed that the rule that -lr
becomes -ll after a long vowel didn't apply in modern Icelandic.

Sverre


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