Re[2]: [tied] -leben/-lev/-löv and -ung-

At 8:48:50 PM on Friday, December 7, 2007, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> On 2007-12-08 02:11, Brian M. Scott wrote:

>>> Are the PNs Hwæssa and Wassa documented?

>> Independently attested as personal names? I'm not aware of
>> any such attestations, but there isn't any really good OE
>> onomasticon. Watts stars <Hwæssa> but does not star
>> <Wassa>, and his sources were much better than mine.

> They look to me like truncated pet-forms of Hwæt-sige and
> Wa:þ-sige, respectively, the first elements meaning
> 'quick, bold' and 'wandering, chase, hunting',
> respectively.

Thanks. I wanted to guess that <Hwæssa> was from one of the
names in <Hwæt->, but I hadn't got as far as using the
deuterotheme to get the /ss/.

Brian