[tied] Re: Vanir,etc.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 12-01-04 15:10, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Marco Moretti"
> > <marcomoretti69@...> wrote:
>
> >> 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.
>
> If one just takes the names of languages beginning with <van-> or

<wan->

> in the Ethnologue database and excludes cases of <vang-> and <wang-
>
> where <-ng-> evidently stands for [N], one gets these:
>
> VANGUNU
> VANIMO
> VANO
> VANUMA
> WAN
> WANAMBRE
> WANAP
> WANDA
> WANDALA
> WANDAMEN
> WANDARANG
> WANDJI
> WANÉ
> WANECI
> WANIB
> WANJI
> WANMAN
> WANNU
> WANO
> WANTOAT
> WANUKAKA
>
> The Wandala must be descentants of the Vandals who found refuge in
> Cameroon and Nigeria after the collapse of their North African

kingdom

> and adopted a Chadic language. One could also run an extended

search

> using a Torstenian-style template such as b/v/w-n/l/r to get

hundreds of

> matches.
>

Nono. Princess Wanda ran all the way to Cameroon to avoid her German
suitor.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4833915-103547,00.html

Torsten