LL-L "Etymology" 2004.08.19 (08) [E]

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From: Patrick or Cynthia Karl <pkarl at grasshoppernet.com>
Subject: Etymology

>From: Stella en Henno <stellahenno at hetnet.nl>
>Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2004.08.11 (05) [E/German]
>
> To name two other examples of this phenomenon: West Frisian "aad"
> [a:t] which is some sort of holder for milk (farmer's word) < *nardo
> (which existed in Old Saxon), where the spelling is non-etymological
> (normally we'd have the -r in there, even though r before d is not
> pronounced anymore in West Frisian, eg kaard = [ka:t]), and a is
> lengthened before rd, which is regular.
>
>In Dutch and English one has "adder" (for the snake), while German has
>"natter" and West Frisian "njirre" (< *ne:dere), which are related to Latin
natrix (water snake) etc.
>
>There are probably more examples, but these came to mind.

Some more in English:  apron, orange, nickname

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