Latin mecum, tecum, etc.

[Thomas McFadden]

and there's the additional obvious example that i forgot to mention: warum
contains the a spelling (and pronunciation), another indication that
something fishy is going on with the vowels in these words in NHG, for
which the most obvious explanation would be dialect mixture in the
standard language.

On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, petegray wrote:

> da-von, da-r-auf etc

>> I have my doubts about the -r- as hiatus filling: in Dutch, the -r is always
>> present, just like in English..

>> Ger. wo = Du. waar
>> Ger. da = Du. daar

>> So, I think it is the absence of -r- in German that requires an explanation.

>> Ed.

> Good thinking!   I checked the etymology of  da- and wo- in German, and
> you're absolutely right.  Da was originally dar.  Wo is less clear, but it
> appears to have been war (with a not o) - certainly that's how it appears in
> Gothic.   So the -r- is a survival.

> Peter