Re: Oesysla/Eysysla etc.

--- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> [snip]

[snip]

> > Finally, if the names Eysysla and Adalsysla had been coined

several

> centuries before AD 800, their original form would have been very
> different (e.g. with common Germanic *auja- for East Scandinavian ö
> or West Scandinavian öy/ey). One would expect such archaic forms to
> survive somewhere among the Baltic Finnic speakers (e.g. *auja- >
> *aiva- like *flauja- > Finnish laiva 'ship'), but I'm not aware of
> any such traces.

I just remembered this:

Sw. Åland - Fi. Ahvenanmaa

cf Got ahwa, Sw. Da. å

Sw., Da. å otherwise means stream, river, but obviously not here.

There's your reflex of PGmc. *ahwa- (not *ahwia-, but I hope this
will do?)

Torsten