From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 64101
Date: 2009-06-09
>What for? <Sif> is a personification of PGmc. *siBjo: 'relationship'
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> I've always suspected this could be a plausible link, Zywa/Síf.
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> If Si:f is Germanic, then < *si:Bo:, *si:Bjo:, *tsi:B-, *ksi:B- ?, *sihiB-?
> If its not could come from an adstratum para-Slavic *z^i:va: > *zi:va: >*z^iva or *z^ivIje could well be represented as <Siwe> in a German
> *si:Bo: ?