[gothic-l] The Letter H (was Re: Gothic word for King)

[Troels Brandt]

Hi Francisc

--- In gothic-l at y..., "Francisc Czobor" <czobor at c...> wrote:
> 
> 
> The ON form jarl (and maybe also the OE form eorl) is due to the 
> "breaking" of [e] before [a] in the original form *erla-. 

I agree, but could this "breaking" sound derive from a consonant in 
another language?

> In the form 
> "erilaR", that occurs in runic inscriptions, the "i" is only "ein 
> heller Sproßvokal", according to Andreas Heusler's "Altisländische 
> Elementarbuch" (Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg, 1967).

Troels


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