[tied] Re: Germanic Scythians?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> >
> > > But as I pointed out, if he took it from a translated Old
> > > Norse source, he would have rendered 'Veg-tam-' as
> > > *Wegtam, not 'Wechtam', since he would have recognized
> > > (like everyone else, apparently) 'veg- ' as a cognate of
> > > German 'Weg'.
> >
> > You're jumping to unwarranted conclusions. You have no idea
> > how the name might have appeared in a *translated* source.
> > Note that in Icelandic <vegtam-> the <g> is pronounced [x],
> > not [g] or even [G] (voiced velar fricative). And there is
> > also an ON <vegr> 'honor, distinction', so <Weg> isn't even
> > the only possibility.
> >
>
> Give me one example of ON -g- being rendered in Latin as -ch-

Vimmer: 'Oldnordisk formlære' states unequivocally that ON -g- is
pronounced as either /g/ or, intervocalically as /G/, but in
contemporary Icelandic only as /g/. What is your source for the /x/
pronunciation? You haven't been engaging in the same activity you
accuse Trithemius of? ;-)

Torsten

> Torsten