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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"> </p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Joachim <<a href="mailto:Osnabryg%2BLowlands@googlemail.com">Osnabryg+Lowlands@googlemail.com</a>></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "Phonology" 2011.09.08 (03) [EN]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<small style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><small><font size="+1"><small><small>Am 07.09.11 21:48,
schrieb Heather Rendall:</small></small></font></small></small>
<blockquote style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" type="cite"><small><small><font size="+1"><small><small>perhaps it
has a genetic source that leads people to hear<br>
sounds in reverse. I am still bowled over by Ross >
Ors visually<br>
it looks acceptably logical but aurally - as it would
have had to have<br>
been in illiterate times - it is an amazing and
seemingly inexplicable<br>
step.</small></small></font></small></small></blockquote>
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<big style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">It might be more traceable, if you concider the germanic source
of the term:<br>
<br>
The most Saxon, Germanic based appellation for latine <i>cavallus</i>
had been:<br>
<br>
*hrussa-, *hrussam<br>
<br>
which might have been pronounced like [ɦɘrʊssa…] or [</big><big style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">χ</big><big style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">ɘrʊssa…],
which could also aurally easily lead to <br>
<br>
*hursa-, *hursam, Germ. (already the metathesis of the 'r'),<br>
<br>
to come out into:<br>
<br>
hros, Old Saxon, O.Fris. hors, O.E. hors<br>
hros-s, Old Norsk (with many other appellations)<br>
hros, O. H. G. and to:<br>
<br>
ors (sometimes: ros), M. Low G. <br>
ors, Middel Dutch, ros, M. H. G., and finally to:<br>
modern<br>
</big><big style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LS (at least Westphalian) </big><big><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">ors/ros</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">, ,
NL </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">ros</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">, EN </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">horse</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
I wonder if such kind of older Germanic spelling/prononciation
could also be applied for other examples of the r-metathesis.</span><br>
</big><br>
<pre cols="65">Met echt-westfœlsken »Goudgaun!«
joachim
Kreimer-de Fries, Osnabrügge => Berlin-Pankow<br></pre></div><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><br>
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