Re: Schöffe I

From: Torsten
Message: 67520
Date: 2011-05-08

More Schöffe stuff:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sceafa
is supposedly just a name.

Re: the form Seskef, cf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saphrax

which has been proposed to be *sā fra(ŋ)k "the bold one"

might thus be *sā skev "the boss" ('der Schöffe')

Strephius might indicate old palatalization *ščep-



Torsten