Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths, Vandals, Angl

--- On Sun, 11/2/08, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> From: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths, Vandals, Angli and Saxones.
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008, 6:04 PM
> On 2008-11-02 20:41, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Do tell, Fyodor. Is it Tanew again?
>
> No, I mean names like Kl/odobok < *kalda-bak(i)-
> 'cold stream', where
> one can see both Grimm's Law and Verner's Law,
> several river names in
> -awa which can plausibly be explained as *-axWo:, or pairs
> X : X-ing
> like Wda < *vIda (a river) : Wdzydze (Videncze 1258,
> Widentz 1284) <
> *vIdeNdz- <-- *widing- (a complex of five large lakes on
> the Wda, hence
> the plural inflection). No matter what the river name meant
> originally
> (perh. *wiþa- ~ *wiðo: 'band', in which case it
> would also exhibit the
> effect of both laws), -ing- is Germanic _and_ Vernerian.
>
> Piotr

Good job, no wonder you went up in Torsten's esteem from a fellow rock "Piotr" to the Gift of God "Fyodr", but isn't Theodoros with a /t/ in Polish?, as Tadeusz for Thaddeus