Re: Vacillare

--- On Mon, 12/8/08, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: Vacillare
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 1:00 PM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> > --- On Mon, 12/8/08, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > . . .
> > > How about this:
> > > Gmc. wank- "vagari", so, vacca = a cow
> left to
> > > its own devices in the
> > > meadows (*vang-), as opposed to one in the
> stable?
> > > http://runeberg.org/svetym/1177.html
> >
> > I suppose most wankers do so because they've left
> to their own devices
>
> That verb had to come up sooner or later.
> How come it has /ä/, not /å/ as expected after /w/?
>
>
> Torsten

Perhaps taboo deformation? Perhaps due to the nasal? aeng is very common in English
Perhaps it's originally a dialect word from an area that favors /ae/ over /a/