LL-L: "Etymology" LOWLANDS-L, 13.SEP.2000 (01) [E]

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From: john feather [johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk]
Subject: Etymology

I sometimes despair of conveying what I mean in the e-mail format.

I wrote:
>The s(z)/r switch in verbs is preserved in English (only?) in the word
>"forlorn". ".
>
Henry responded:
>In Low-Saxon we have "ferlör(e)n", which means "lost" ("verloren" in
Dutch). Isn't that the same, and doesn't that mean it's not just English
that
preserved it?<

Yes, because I meant "it is preserved only in the word 'forlorn' in English
but I am not sure that someone isn't going to find another example". I
thought that we had already established the existence of the phenomenon in
Dutch, German, etc.

John Feather johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk

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