Northmen as 'mGall'

[Eduard Selleslagh]

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Mc Callister <rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu>
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 7:48 AM

[ moderator snip ]

>Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but isn't French gue/ from Latin vadum, which
>looks as if it's a borrowing from a Germanic cognate of English wade [or else
>a very cognate-looking cognate]


[Ed]
No, it's an old PIE root that is found in several branches of IE.

Ed.