Re: Vanir,etc.

> > 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.

And did you try matching with Kartvelian?
Here's one for you: Iranian V&r&Tragna > Georgian Vakhtang, Armenian
Vahagn > Odin's name Vegtam; Vangiones; <Wagnijo> in Runic (weapon
find), the PN Vagn in Danish.

>Even Basque comparison is not productive.

I think Rick McAllister believed otherwise; unfortunately his site is
defunct and I can't find my paper copy.

>So I dismiss any idea of connecting Vanir with something Kartvelian.

Did you try, or is it the same story as with your dialectal Georgian
<wani> "home" that suddenly appeared out of a denial?


I think Herodotus mentioned some campaign in the Caucasus where they
had to bring 100 interpreters. Ubykh recently died out. How do you
know that there are not cognates from a lost Caucasian language in
Germanic?


Torsten