[tied] Re: Vanir,etc.

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

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Marco Moretti"
> <marcomoretti69@...> wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
> > wrote:
> > > At 9:52:16 AM on Monday, January 12, 2004, Marco Moretti
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > What's the original meaning of the theonym Vanir?
> > >
> > > Uncertain. Possibly from the o-grade of *wen- 'to desire,
> > > to strive for'.
> > >
> >
> > Ablautical /o/-grade isn't found (as far I know) in any IE

variety

> > for the root *wen- (from which Venus, Veneti, etc...).
> > So this etymon is difficult. As I say I'm personally incline to
> > believe in a relationship with a Substratum item
> > /*wana-/ "king", "bright" > "divine".
> >
>
> Or it is the kingdom of Vani. That was not so difficult?

If your theory were true, we should find some Kartvelian substratum
items in Germanic. But we found nothing similar! I analyzed in depth
hundreds of bizarre non-IE Germanic roots, succeeding only few times
in getting some useful matchup with something else. Even Basque
comparison is not productive. So I dismiss any idea of connecting
Vanir with something Kartvelian.

Marco