At 7:24:18 AM on Sunday, April 13, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:
> I was wondering what the last element of the ON ígul-köttr
> was Brian provided in
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/57179
> (cf. Sw. igelkott "hedgehog") "sea urchin cat"?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_urchin
De Vries thought that it probably originally signified a
round object ('einen runden gegenstand bedeutet hat') and
was later 'kontaminiert' by <ko,ttr>. SAOB s.v. <igelkotte>
partly agrees; it has OSwe. <egelkotther>, <ighulkutter>,
<ighilkotter>, and of the second element it says 'senare
ssgsleden sannol. till KOTT(E), varvid dock den västnordiska
formen <-ko,ttr> måste förklaras ss. folketymologiskt
ansluten till <ko,ttr>, katt'. (<Kotte> is 'cone', as in
'pinecone'.)
Brian