Re[2]: [tied] Wolf, varg

At 4:56:13 AM on Friday, May 27, 2005, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- 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.

On that he'll have to speak for himself. I note, however,
that he has not mentioned <ulfr> and has derived <vargr>
from a root different from *wl.kWos in comments whose point
appears to be precisely that.

<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/38043>
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/38073> (with
a minor correction in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/38074>.

Brian