Re: [tied] Ragnvalðr or Rögnvalðr?

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 13149
Date: 2002-04-09

Back-mutated short <a> yields _short_ <o,>, so it doesn't matter from your point of view. Anyway, you can safely assume <ragn-> for eastern Norse.
 
Piotr
 
 
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From: tarasovass
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Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Ragnvalðr or Rögnvalðr?

Thank you very much, Piotr.

Beekes in his "Introduction..." mentions (at page 67) that the Old Norse <o,> was _long_ open rounded back vowel, so Old Russian /a/ would be expected as a best-fit substitute -- it was that moment that put me into trouble. On the other hand, <o,> could well had lost it's longevity/tenseness in the 9th c., so it would work indeed.