Re: [tied] Re: Wuz

At 7:37:40 AM on Tuesday, July 13, 2004, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

[...]

>> Künzel, Blok, & Verhoeff, Lexicon van nederlandse toponiemen
>> tot 1200, have the citation <Philippus de Wasnare> 1200
>> [1305] and say: wrsch. onl. _hare_ 'hoogte, heuvelrug' met
>> bijv. nw. _wasn_ (< dativus singularis *_hwassan_) 'scherp'
>> (vgl. oe. _hwass_).
>>

> Given Swedish vass 'reed(s)' (I think most Lexicon etc
> writers wouldn't be aware that it existed),

Seems a strange assumption; the word's in every
Swedish-English bilingual that I own, in both directions,
and is described as 'common'. (I'm not sure what you mean
by 'Lexicon etc writers'; all three authors are serious
toponymists.)

Brian