[tied] Re: Hung. var-oS

>
> There is also an old interjection in Czech, "vari" (OCz forms are

also vary,

> varyte, varite, var, varte) "away from my way! step aside!", which

seems to

> be an imperative of a weird *variti (perhaps attested in a dialect

around

> Litomys^l: "volal na ne^j, at' vari'", i.e. "he shouted at him to

be

> careful, to watch out".

I recall from history class way back that the Dithmarschers in the
battle of Mehldorf agaist the Danish king Hans and his German
mercenary guard is supposed to have shouted (in platt): War di, gar!
Hier komt de Bur! or the like. Danish 'tage vare på' (loan?) "take
care of".

Torsten