From: Trond Engen
Message: 64113
Date: 2009-06-10
> On 2009-06-09 20:52, Joao S. Lopes wrote:Already guilty of one ill-concieved suggestion I might as well launch
>
>> I've always suspected this could be a plausible link, Zywa/Síf.
>>
>> If Si:f is Germanic, then < *si:Bo:, *si:Bjo:, *tsi:B-, *ksi:B- ?,
>> *sihiB-?
>
> What for? <Sif> is a personification of PGmc. *siBjo: 'relationship'
> (Goth. sibja OE sibb, OHG sipp(e)a). The underlying adjective is
> *siBja- 'of one's own kind', hence *siBj-an- 'relative'. They seem
> to be echt Germanic, ultimately from *swe-bH-(i)o-. Note that Gmc.
> *B always becomes *b in loanwords taken by Slavic.
>
>> If its not could come from an adstratum para-Slavic *z^i:va: >
>> *zi:va: > *si:Bo: ?
>
> *z^iva or *z^ivIje could well be represented as <Siwe> in a German
> source, but then of course it would have nothing to do with Sif,
> formally or semantically.