Re: Language - Area - Routes

From: tgpedersen@...
Message: 6053
Date: 2001-02-12

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> SfinUkelU could derive from something like *swinTa-kiulaz '(having
a) strong ship' with the characteristically Scandinavian development
*-nT- > -nn- (as opposed to the preservation of the cluster in Gothic
and High German, or the loss of the nasal with compensatory
lengthening as in Ingvaeonic). My tentative guess is therefore Old
Norse *Svinnkjölr -- a Scandinavian Rus, after all? SvenIlIdU seems
to be *Svein- 'young man' > Old Swedish Sven- plus something puzzling
if it's to be a man's name, but if female, it's probably
Svenhild 'young men's war'. DirU is perhaps Dýrr 'glorious, worthy,
noble' (cf. English dear).
>
> Piotr

Svein-ketill- (as in Tor-ketill-?

Torsten

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: S.Tarasovas@...
> To: cybalist@...
> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 4:25 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes
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> --- In cybalist@..., João Simões Lopes Filho <jodan99@...> wrote:
> > What Germanic names are equivalent to SfinUkelU, DirU and SveN I
l
> IdU ?
>
> That's the question the answer to which I would like to know
myself.
> I'm not a Germanist, some help is required.
>
> Sergei