Re: Res: [tied] Siwe

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 64114
Date: 2009-06-10

On 2009-06-11 00:43, Trond Engen wrote:

> Piotr Gasiorowski:

> > *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.
>
> Already guilty of one ill-concieved suggestion I might as well launch
> another: Any chance for a relation to ON <Gefjon>?

I don't think so. Here, the root element is *GaB-. I can't see how it
could become Slavic *z^iv-.

Piotr