Saell aftur, Haukur.

Eins og thu serd er eg ekki med net-tengingu ad thessu sinni.

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Haukur Thorgeirsson
<haukurth@...> wrote:

> Sæll aftur, Konráð.
>
> I looked up the word in Ásgeir Magnússon's etymological dictionary.

It seems my guess on the grades may have been right on. The Vedic
relative shows zero-grade as well in /satyá-/. (In Vedic the syllabic
/n/ developed into /a/.) On the other hand the Latin word (sons,
sontis) seems to show the o-grade - just like Old Norse and West
Germanic!

Yes. This makes sense. Compare also the Sanskrit negative prefix /a/
with the Germanic /un/, Old Sanskrit (Vedic) /asura-/(supreme being/
divinity) with Proto-Germanic and Proto-Norse /ansuz/, and similar
Avestic forms. This /n/ is clearly something Germanic!

> How do you say satya-yuga in rýnska? ;)

Hmmm. I am not aware of any direct equivalent to 'juga' in Germanic
languages. Certainly, 'yoga'(long O) becomes Proto-Norse *yuka and
Norse 'ok'(-it, a dyri) by the G-to-K rule (Indic to Germanic), but
'yuga' means something very different. I would translate the concept
'satya-yuga' with the words 'gullold asa' in Norse. Here is how it
would be spelled in Rynska: K (stungid i G), U (ostungid), L (einfalt
og ostungid), TH (stungid fyrir nedan i naestliggjandi samhljod - L),
A (stungid i O = U-hljodvarp), L (einfalt), T (stungid i D), A (langt
nefhljod - ostungin Ass-run), S (ostungid), A (ostungid). Sama hug-
tokin a frumnorraenu vaeri 'gulthaaldu ansiwo' eda 'gulthaaldiz ansi-
wo'. Um nefnifall thessa ords sja 'ield(u)' i fornensku (med I-hljod-
varp) og 'alds' i Gotnesku - thetta bendir e.t.v. til thess ad ordid
hafi verid "aldiz" i frumgermonsku. En hins vegar er U-endingin ad
finna baedi i Norraenu og Ensku. Thetta er soltid/svolitid skrytid.

Kvedja,
Konrad.

> Kveðja,
> Haukur