Notes & Queries Archive
REPLY1851

Aver

By E. H. K.

E.M., in his Note on J. MN.'s remarks on hogs, mentions that the term *aver*, *averium*, is still used in Guernsey. Is not this word closely connected with the *Eber* of the German Jägers?

Topics: Linguistics, Historical Linguistics

Locations: Guernsey, Germany