From: tgpedersen
Message: 12393
Date: 2002-02-19
>distiguishing between *erul- the social class and *herul- the
> If they are not, the poor Germani would have had a hard time
--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> Who says that non-cognate words can't be similar-sounding or even
homophonous?
Erh, I don't think I said just that.
They often are. My own impression, though, is that "Herul-" and erila-
/erla- have probably got the same etymology. Not because they are too
similar to be unrelated, but merely because I can't think of a
plausible alternative analysis of "Herul-".
>
> Piotr
>
>
How about the etymology I proposed in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/11838
(please ignore the headline)?
Tacitus(?) says the Germani worshiped Hercules. If his name went
unchanged (sort of) between Greek, Romans and Etruscans, the Germani
might have known him under the same name.
Torsten