Re: Vanir,etc.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Marco Moretti"
<marcomoretti69@...> wrote:

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

wrote:

>
> > Vani, vanir very rough resemblance?
> > >
> >
> > Insist to your heart's content. You seem obsessed by calling
> > everything I find a chance resemblance.
>
> If I'm not wrong, the Caucasian people of Kartvelian origin is

named

> Svani. Now, there's nothing in Germanic assuring the presence of an
> old initial sibilant in Vanir (< *wani-).

I assume you read the link I provided? <Vani>, not <Svani>.

>So the matchup is rough.
> It is a word with a plain structure, it can be found almost
> everywhere.
>

In that case, please provide three or four.

> You don't reconstruct protolanguages then trying to find links
> between protoforms with regular or at least explainable phonetic
> correspondence, you have a quite kinky methodology.
> Without knowing something about a topic, you choose some match
> looking only for chance resemblance, then you think it is the
> evidence of something mysterious and deep, and you build up very
> quickly a whole pseudo-history of Polynesian Vikings, alien
> Cosmonauts and other funny things.
>

People in this part of the world find nothing mysterious and deep
about boats.

Torsten