Re: Whence Grimm?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "altamix" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

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

wrote:

> > BTW (from Kuhn)
> >
> > Thra:x > Þrór (a: > o:, k > x > zero), Thors other name
> > Thracian skalme: > Skalm (Hattamál(?) 16), short sword
> >
> > Torsten
>
> mmmm..... Thracian "skalme:"? Wherefrom did you got this glosse,

from

> Kuhn? Does he explain where he found this glosse and in which

context?

>
> Alex

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From Lidell and Scott:
skalme , he, ( [skallô] ) knife, sword, S.Fr.620, M.Ant.11.15. On
the accent, v. Hdn.Gr.1.324.
skallo , stir up, hoe, Hdt.2.14, Arist.Mir.837b22, cf.
Thphr.HP2.7.5, etc.: metaph., search, probe, s. to pneuma mou LXX
Ps.76(77).7 .

No suggestion of a Thracian source.
Dan Milton