Re: Vanir,etc.

From: tgpedersen
Message: 29507
Date: 2004-01-13

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Marco Moretti"
<marcomoretti69@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:
>
> > So I move the hypercorrection back to PGmc. How's that for you?
> >
>
> Without any evidence. Can you provide other examples of supposed
> hypercorrections? I think it's idle.
>

I suspect WGmc *þonar- vs. NGmc *þorr. Acc. to Snorri, Thor is much
older than Odin, he live in Thrace, and Europe is filled with Tor/Tur-
placenames (Zürich, Torino etc)

Torsten