Re: [tied]

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From: Yves Deroubaix

To: cybalist@eGroups.com

Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 8:22 PM

Subject: [tied]

I don't know the origin of Germanic *dani-. In case you wonder, it can't be connected with IE *da:nu-, since that would have changed into Germanic *to:nu-.

 

Sweden was called Swio-ri:ce 'the kingdom of the Swees' in Beowulf (= Old Swedish Svea-ri:ke > modern Sverige). The ethnic name Swees (if I may risk this modernised spelling = Old Swedish Svear) meant simply 'our own countrymen' (IE *swe-, hence also the personal name Sven).

 

Piotr

 

 

Wat is the etymology of 'Danes' and 'Swedes'?