Re: Wodan again (sigh)

From: tgpedersen
Message: 61665
Date: 2008-11-15

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
>
> At 5:38:42 PM on Saturday, November 15, 2008, tgpedersen
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > But there is a far more famous name which belongs to this
> > series; that of the great god of Germanic mythology, Wodan
> > (Wotan, Odin): Wo:da-naz (a derivative in *-nos) made from
> > a term *wo:ða-, an ancient form of German Wut "fury".
>
> [...]
>
> > I think I want to find that term in Pokorny.
>
> Try his *wa:t-, p. 1113.

Odin was bowlegged? I didn't know that.

Tell you what, Brian: You and Pokorny share *wa:t, I get my *wedh- and
*wa:dh- and everybody's happy.


Torsten