[gothic-l] Eruli. The IE etymology X

[Bertil Haggman]

"Uhlenbeck's proposal linking the 'earl' words (by ablaut)
to Gothic ara, Olc. orn 'Eagle', Grk. ornis 'bird' survived
long enough to be mentioned by Pokorny, but Ebbinghaus
and Lehmann, for example, have dismissed it. Although it does
have the advantage of offering Baltic and Slavic analogues to the
Germanic -l- suffix (e.g. Lith. erelis, Russ. orel), this is hardly
a compelling point; furthermore, the semantic link is not
obvious and would have to be like that between the meanings
'boar' and 'prince' of Olc. jofurr. Walde-Pokorny had mentioned
a possible connection between l. *er- 'eagle' and *er 'move',
but this suggestion does not appear in the _Indogermanisches
etymologisches Woerterbuch_(IEW).

Erulically

Bertil


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