From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 45229
Date: 2006-07-05
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Carl Hult <datalampa@...>Also OIc <tungl>.
> wrote:
>> I´ve started a discussion about the moon with my mother
>> on how old the worship of the moon may be. Halfway into
>> this discussion I reminded myself of a word I saw in
>> Hellquists linguistic dictionary over the swedish tongue,
>> namely tungel.
>> This word tungel meant star or moon in older swedish andAnd it really is Common Gmc.: Gothic has <tuggl> 'Gestirn'.
>> can still be found in dialects all over Sweden. I was
>> very intrigued to find that both german and english had
>> had this word too, in the same meaning. In old german it
>> can be found as Zungal, old saxon as tungal and in old
>> english as tungol. It seems to have died out on the
>> continent. Anyone who can explain this word to me? It
>> does not correspond with any of the other words for moon
>> or star or even heavenly body, which was the main meaning
>> in old swedish.
> The etymological dictionary at
> http://runeberg.org/svetym/0587.html has (under ma`ne)
> "samgermanskt ord av ovisst ursprung", which I take it
> means "common Germanic word of uncertain origin">