Re: Who were the Igylliones?

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> At 2:51:09 PM on Thursday, June 2, 2011, george knysh wrote:
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> > GK: Cld [<igylli>] be in the same "family" as Egill et
> > sim.?
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> <Egill> has been derived from Prim.Scand. *aGilaR, probably
> from the stem seen in ON <agi> 'awe, terror, uproar'; that
> really doesn't seem a very good fit for the initial <i>.
> How about ON <ígull>, OE & OGH <i:gil> 'hedgehog'? <g>
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> Brian
>  ****GK: Thanks for the tip. I'll think this through and see if one
> can come up with something more than ad hoc applications.****
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More discussion here.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/65325
The prefixed igul- (< *aNg-l- ?) in anthroponyms might be an ethnic epithet. a/u/i 'ablaut' is characteristic of Kuhn's 1st non-IE NWBlock language, I suspect that's from an original nasal vowel *aN-.


Torsten