Re: Vanir

--- In cybalist@..., "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

> [BTW I think
> Old Rus' "Chud'" probably goes back to this "Thiudos"
> (and later derivatives: a traditional North German/
> Norse designation for the "people" of this area].
> [Sergejus Tarasovas]
>
> ORuss <c^udI> (f.) 'a nom. pr. of a number of northern peoples,
> including Baltic Finns', <c^uz^I> (adj.) 'alien' , OCS

<s^tuz^dI> 'id.'

> (> hence a bookish Russian hybrid c^'uz^dyj 'extraneous, alien'), as
> well as their cognates in other Slavic languages, derive from Slavic
> *tjudjI 'alien('s)', which is a semantically inverted borrowing from
> Germanic (or, more specificly, Gothic?) *Tiudiskaz 'ours' < *Tiud-
> '(our) people' < PIE *teut- 'people'.
>
> See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/2008 and

thereabouts.

>
> Sergei

Continental North Germanic (and Friesian) has T > t, West Germanic
(including Low German) has T > d; *tiut- seems a better starting
point than *diut- for <c^ud->.

Torsten