[gothic-l] Re: James Marchand

[Francisc Czobor]

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, "B. Gendler" <gendler at p...> wrote:

The cognate German word is Hure "prostitute".
The Webster's New College Dictionary gives ME hore, akin to ON hora
(from IE base *ka:- "to like, be fond of, desire", whence also Lat.
carus "dear, precious", Latvian kars [with a macron on a]"lecherous")

Francisc

GUTANI WIHAILAG

>
> All of the references I have found say "adulterer" for "hors."
> J. Wright connects it to the Anglo-Saxon "hore," which makes
> it the same root as our modern "whore." J.R. Clarke Hall
> lists "hore" as "whore, prostitute." There is also the Old Norse
> "horr" (= adulterer acc to La Farge & Tucker) and "hor" (=
> adulterer, paramour, lover acc to same). What he (the journalist)
> may have been implying was that he found a new meaning,
> not a new word (just a guess here) but this word has sparked
> my interest. Does anybody know more cognates? Feel free to
> send them to me offlist. More importantly, does anybody have
> any evidence linking this word with "pimp"???
>
> any suggestions or comments welcome,
>          Gendler.


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