Re: [tied] Re: Vanir etc.

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From: "tolgs001" <george.st@...>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 10:05 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Vanir etc.


> >If I were to compare the name of the Vanir with known Germanic
> >words, I'd suggest a connection with *wana- 'deficient, lacking,
> >incompletely formed'
>
> Akin to Latin vanus?

Pokorny thinks so, and reconstructs a root (eu-1) that could only be
*h1wah2- in laryngeal terms. Gmc. *wana- would then have to be derived from
*u-ana- < *h1uh2-ono-, while Lat. va:nus < *h1wah2-no-. Calvert Watkins
agrees:

http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE136.html

Piotr