I'm a new member; i have a general a "Gothonic" passion.
I have peculiar interest in ON due to my surname "Thackery" which
i´ve been able to trace to a compound word of ON beginnings. What i
need help on is what a reconstructed form would indeed look like.
From John Geipel's "The Viking Legacy" he states what I've found else
where; namely that "Thackray [stems from] ([Old ]N[orse]: þakkr,
literally 'thatch'[...])", and that the ending "-ray" or in my
altered variation "-ery" is from ON "vrá, literally 'nook' and
referring in placenames to out-of-the-way valleys and similar
secluded sites, occurs at Wray, Rowrah, [....]" (p. 136)
Thus, Þakkr + vrá is the compound predecessor to my modern Thackery.
Yet, i'm not sure what it'd look like assembled exactly (this is
where I need feedback). Would it be: Þakkrvrá; Þakkarvrá, or
Þakkavrá, or something else?
Works cited:
Geipel, John. "The Viking Legacy: The Scandinavian Influence on the
English Language." London: David & Charles Pub, 1971.