tgpedersen wrote:
> Now _that_ is a good question and one I wondered why no one else
> asked. All I have to show is the possibly Iranian name Hermunduri and
> the possibly Pontic-and-Caucasian-from-Iranian origin of the name
> Wodan.
OK. Let us go on the path "Hermunduri" = iranic name. which is its
reflexes today in Germanic?
There seems that a "g" > "h" but not an "h" > "g". Beside of this if the
"Hermunduri" is not the english variant then this "duri" shows an Latin
end of the word. Which should be the original form of the word?
The another one "Wodan". Where is the name to find in Iranic?
What about a asimilation of "gd" in "d"? I give you the exmaple gd>d in
"Magd" > "Mädel". If one will accept a such Ideea then your Wodan can be
a Wogdan= Bogdan= supposed slavic. Looks plausible, doesn't it?
> And Piotr mentioned that 'path' might be an Iranian loan.
Why a Iranian loan? What speak for a Iranian source?