OIcel. kærr ‘dear, beloved’ and the “Picardian hypothesis”

This article challenges Fischer’s 1909 implied proposal that OIcel. kærr [9th/10th c.+] is a North French, Picardian, loan. Fischer’s etymology, which was preceded and inspired by Jessen’s 1893 work on Danish, is rejected on the phonological grounds that the initial plosive in Icelandic is palatal...

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Main Author: Matteo Tarsi
Format: Article
Language:Danish
Published: Isländska sällskapet 2023-06-01
Series:Scripta Islandica
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Online Access:https://publicera.kb.se/scis/article/view/33664
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