Re: Old English and Old Norse

At 6:34:25 PM on Wednesday, February 18, 2009, Andrew
Jarrette wrote:

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> Yeah, and as descendants of the *deik^- root, "tiginn" and
> especially "tiggi" in their meaning of "king, noble, etc."
> probably go back to an original sense "one who shows the
> way, leader".

<Tiginn> looks more like German <ausgezeichnet>.

> I would also bet that these words occur only or chiefly in
> poetry.

True of <tiggi> ~ <tyggi>, according to Cleasby & Vigfússon.

Brian