Re: Wuz

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

> 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.)
>

That may be so. It seems an obvious choice, so I just puzzled it
wasn't discussed or even mentioned. Do you have a better
explanation of why that is so?

Torsten