Re: [tied] Wolf, varg

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

> At 12:21:11 PM on Thursday, May 26, 2005, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > OK. So Germanic has a word that means "wolf" and also
> > metaphorically "criminal",
>
> The evidence suggests that you have it backwards: the wolf
> is vargr because it's malign.
>

The evidence suggests that you have missed the point of the argument:
Piotr does not want vargr and ulfr to be two independent roots, as you
do, but one and the same root in Germanic.


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