Re: [tied] Renault (which is the same thing)

I've looked at those names again, and it seems that even in Old West Norse unmlaut in Ragn- is rare. The only other example I've found (with variable umlaut) also has <v-> in the second element (Rannveig ~ Rögnveig), though other such names don't show it. It's quite possible that it was the <v-> that caused the umlaut, though these two (or one and a half) examples don't even quite outweigh the counterexamples. Anyway, Old Swedish has Ragn- across the board.

Piotr

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Subject: Re: [tied] Renault (which is the same thing)

--- In cybalist@......, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@......> wrote: > There were about a dozen other names with <ragn-> (Ragnhildr, Ræginmundr [Raymond], Ragnarr, etc.). In by far most of them the variant <ragn-> is used. > A second thought. If /o,/ in western Norse _Ro,gnvaldr_ is caused by /v/([w])-provoked u-umlaut rather than some kind of analogical levelling, the names you mentioned can't be accepted as a supporting evidence for the fact that the umlaut failed in eastern Norse in that particular lexeme -- there are no /v/ or /u/ in the names.