Re: [tied] Re: Vanir

From: João S. Lopes Filho
Message: 11281
Date: 2001-11-19

But Vanir is Vanir (short a) or Va:nir (long a) ?
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Subject: [tied] Re: Vanir


> --- In cybalist@..., "João S. Lopes Filho" <jodan99@...> wrote:
> > I think *Wagn- would give Vagn- or Vakk-, nor Vanir.
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> True, if you insist the word was first used in Germanic. And
> therefore I can assume some other tribe had *waGn- > *va:n-. That's
> not assuming much.
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