--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> SfinUkelU could derive from something like *swinTa-kiulaz '(having a) str=
ong 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 t=
entative guess is therefore Old Norse *Svinnkjölr -- a Scandinavian Rus, aft=
er all? SvenIlIdU seems to be *Svein- 'young man' > Old Swedish Sven- plus s=
omething puzzling if it's to be a man's name, but if female, it's probably S=
venhild 'young men's war'. DirU is perhaps Dýrr 'glorious, worthy, noble' (c=
f. English dear).
>
> Piotr
>
One more spelling is Sve^naldU. I just discovered this name is mentioned by=
Vasmer - he refers to Tosen's explanation: Old Norse Sveinaldr. Young men's=
what?
On the other hand, my point of course was not that these names can't be ety=
mologized on an Old Norse basis. But what do we know about the language of R=
ugi? How can it be classified (North, West, East Germanic)? What if Rugian e=
tymologies, if we only could develop them, would have suited even better?
Sergei