Re: Gothic Thunder God, Thunraz

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

>
> > BTW it puzzles me that some people accept the interpretation of
> > Thuringia as derived from *Thor-ing-, since Thor is North

Germanic,

> > the West Germanic being *Thonar-?
>
> The primitive WGmc. form is *þun(a)r-a- (see OE þunor, þunres with
> non-lowered *u). If Thuring- is to be derived from that, one may

assume

> *þunr-ing- > þuring- via dissimilatory simplification. Too many

nasals: cf.

> *ximina- > *himil-, *hibin- > Himmel, heaven, or *kuninga- > king,

König.

>

Nice. I didn't know it was that easy to remove an inconvient /n/
from a Germanic divine name.

Torsten