Re: [tied] Re: Vanir,etc.

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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 1:55 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Vanir,etc.


> > I remember you that Proto-Germanic has /*ansuz/, "a k. of divine or
> > semi-divine being". So we cannot match it with a form /as/ that
> > almost certainly had no ancient nasal at all. It is chance
> > resemblance.
> >
>
> Which is a reconstruction. I think the Germanic forms with -n- are a
> hypercorrection.

Absolute nonsense. OE o:s-, ON �s-, OHG ans- unabbiguously point to *ans-
and to nothing else. The only reason for your thinking that the -n- is a
"hypercorrection" is that otherwise you can't match the Germanic word with
"as-". For anybody else it would be a sufficient reason for abandoning the
comparison, but you prefer to follow the method worked out by Procrustes the
highwayman: "If they don't fit, stretch 'em."

Piotr