From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 20638
Date: 2003-04-01
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From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Ardagast/Radogost
> Doesn't Tacitus call "spear" other way? I think now at the word used by
> Tacitus: framee
<framea>, to be precise. However, the generic word for 'spear' was *gaiza- (OE ga:r, ON geirr), related to Celtic *gaiso- (hence Lat. gaesum and Gk. gaison, both borrowed from Gaulish). It was a popular onomastic element. There are numerous Germanic names with *-gaiza- (= Eng. -gar) as the second component, and quite a few beginning with it.
Piotr