At 6:51:40 PM on Saturday, November 15, 2008, tgpedersen
wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:
>> At 5:38:42 PM on Saturday, November 15, 2008, tgpedersen
>> wrote:
>> [...]
>>> But there is a far more famous name which belongs to this
>>> series; that of the great god of Germanic mythology, Wodan
>>> (Wotan, Odin): Wo:da-naz (a derivative in *-nos) made from
>>> a term *wo:ða-, an ancient form of German Wut "fury".
>> [...]
>>> I think I want to find that term in Pokorny.
>> Try his *wa:t-, p. 1113.
> Odin was bowlegged? I didn't know that.
The other *wa:t-, obviously: 'geistig angeregt sein'.
Lat. <va:te:s, -is> (wohl kelt. Lw. ?) 'Weissager, Seher',
gall. <ouáteis> N. Pl. ds. , air. <fa:ith> 'Seher,
Prophet', mir. fa:th (*wa:tu-) 'Prophezeiung, Ursache' =
cymr. <gwawd> 'Gedicht'; got. <wo:ds> 'besessen', aisl.
<o:ðr>, ags. <wo:d> ds. (*wo:da-), ahd. <wuot>
'insanitus'; aisl. <ø:sa> 'rasend, verrückt machen', ags.
<we:dan>, ahd. <wuoten>, alts. <wo:dian> 'wüten, rasend,
verrückt sein'; ahd. *<wuot> (Gen. <wuoti>), mhd. <wuot>
'heftige Gemütsstimmung, Wut'; dazu aisl. <O:ðinn>, as.
ags. <Wo:den>, ahd. <Wuotan>; auf germ. *<wo:þa->
weist aisl. <o:ðr> m. 'Poesie', ags. <wo:þ> 'Gesang, Laut,
Stimme, Dichtung';
Brian