Re: Various Germanic tribes etc

> From: tgpedersen
> To: cybalist@...
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 9:40 AM
> Subject: [tied] Re: Various Germanic tribes etc
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> > BTW Is (Iranian) As-tae -> (Germanic) Asdingi possible?
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--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> Not if the tempting (and more likely) connection with ON Haddingjar
is real. The Scandinavian assimilation -dd- < *-zd- [-zD-] is
regular, so the form *xazding- = <Hasding-> appears to be authentic.
How _that_ is to be etymologised is a different question -- and a
good one.
>
> Piotr
>
To which you with your amazing skills I trust have a good answer. I
have it from a competent authority that even in the misty past it was
possible for a people to change their language. As for the (a priori)
likeliness, we will probably never agree. ("Possible", he asked.) Who
were the Haddingjar BTW?
If no one has further objections to that short historical exposition,
I will accept it as gospel truth.

Torsten