[tied] Re: Saxon wanum "bright"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>
> Marco:
> >/*wensu-/ ??? Perhaps you hybridized /*ansu-/ with /*wani-/, but it
> >doesn't matter. No one of these items is really IE.
>
> Last time I checked, Vanir had an IE etymology relating it in some

way

> to the same root underlying "Venus". Do you know something

different?

Yes. In Vanir the ending /-ir/ is from German /*-i:z/ < IE /-*ejes/.
There is no trace of an old /-s-/ stem. So /*wensu-/ is simply a
nonsense.

> >You convoluted attempts are similar to those of a little

lilliputian

> >drowning in a glass of water.
>
> Cut the crap. We could all say the same about you, but why are
> you trying to reduce this forum to insults? Stick to facts without
> the attacks, please.
>
>
> = gLeN
>

Sorry, it was not meant as an insult. In Italy we use to say "to be
drowning in a glass of water" to mean " to be in serious trouble
without any apparent reason". As a full-sized man difficultly would
drown in a glass of water, I used the word "lilliputian" for
expressive reasons.
Nothing personal.

Regards

Marco