Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"

Czy pan mowi poangielsku?
You lost me on this one.
Tell me or I'll sic my ancestor Yngvald Illrada on
you.


--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> >
> > On 2008-03-07 19:17, Rick McCallister wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, but maybe the guy was a dork
> >
> > Personal names of adjectival origin are not always
> complimentary. Cf.
> > Gk. Strábo:n from <strábos> 'squinting', ON
> Ill(h)ugi 'malicious,
> > ill-natured', Lat. Claudius from <claudus> 'lame',
> etc.
> >
> > Even epithets given to kigs and heroes aren't
> always nice. Poor Harald
> > Blåtand!
> >
>
> Or Bolesl/aw Krzywousty? (Beside the fact that
> Harald ended with an
> arrow up his butt).
>
>
> Torsten
>
>
>

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