Re: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 6030
Date: 2001-02-10

SfinUkelU could derive from something like *swinTa-kiulaz '(having a) strong ship' with the characteristically Scandinavian development *-nT- > -nn- (as opposed to the preservation of the cluster in Gothic and High German, or the loss of the nasal with compensatory lengthening as in Ingvaeonic). My tentative guess is therefore Old Norse *Svinnkjölr -- a Scandinavian Rus, after all? SvenIlIdU seems to be *Svein- 'young man' > Old Swedish Sven- plus something puzzling if it's to be a man's name, but if female, it's probably Svenhild 'young men's war'. DirU is perhaps Dýrr 'glorious, worthy, noble' (cf. English dear).
 
Piotr
 
 
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Subject: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes

--- In cybalist@......, João Simões Lopes Filho <jodan99@......> wrote:
> What Germanic names are equivalent to SfinUkelU,  DirU and SveN I l
IdU ?

That's the question the answer to which I would like to know myself.
I'm not a Germanist, some help is required.

Sergei