From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 29488
Date: 2004-01-13
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From: "Marco Moretti" <marcomoretti69@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 9:46 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Vanir,etc.
> Well, I have found Georgian (dialectal) /vani/ "home". It is
> suspected to be a North-Caucasian loanword. It has nothing to do with
> the Vanir, whose central meaning must be something
> like "bright", "divine" or "king".
Not that I want to defend Torsten's comparison, but how do you know in
advance what Germanic *wan- _must_ have meant? (The singular was likely just
*wanaz; the <-ir> ending in Old Norse was the suppletive plural of
tribal/collective names, cf. OE -e). If you compare it directly with Greek
(w)anakt-, how is that better from Torsten's Caucasian matches?
Piotr