Re: Vanir,etc.

From: Marco Moretti
Message: 29510
Date: 2004-01-13

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

Phonetics doesn't match at all.
Absolutely impossible.

Marco