Re: Wolf, varg

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

> 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>.

Of course I neither said nor implied that <ulfr> and <vargr> were the
same root in Germanic. They obviously aren't!

Piotr