Heill Sjuler,

An interesting hypothesis, but I'm 99.9% certain it's Old Irish. Perhaps Simon could give us some context for the reference, that could help us solve this question?

The acute accent is the same as in ON, it indicates a long vowel.

Kveðja,

Dan

sjuler wrote:
I agree with the fact that AMLÁIB is not Old Norse. But it may be 
Proto-Norse. Indeed, Old Norse ÓLÁFR comes from Proto-Norse 
ANULAIBAZ. In accusative we have ANULAIB. This resembles AMLÁIB, 
doesn't it? If AMLÁIB - or more conveniently written AMLAIBAZ, was 
Proto-Norse, the Old Norse version would be AMLEIFR, I think. I don't 
know what the prefix AM- should refer to, though.

If the prefix AM- should really be ARN- (note that 'm' and 'rn' can 
be mixed up in some fonts), the Proto-Norse name is ARNLAIBAZ, which, 
of course, becomes ARNLEIFR in Old Norse.

It should be notes that often the Proto-Norse diphtong AI became Á, 
which explains why the Proto-Norse suffices -LAIBAZ, -LAIKAZ etc. 
became -LÁFR, -LÁKR etc. in ÓLÁFR, ÞORLÁKR etc.

One question about Irish: Exactly what does the acute accent ´ mean? 
In what sense do AMLÁIB and *AMLAIB differ?

Sjul ('Victory guardian')







--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Bray <dbray@...> wrote:
  
Heill Simon,

Well, the piece you´re reading is wrong. Amláib is not Norse, but 
    
an Old 
  
Irish approximation of the Norse name Óláfr. In Modern Irish it 
    
would be 
  
spelled Amhláibh, and a very crude rendering into English 
    
pronunciation 
  
would be "Owlahv".

Kveðja,

Dan

simonfittonbrown@... wrote:

    
Hi,
Apparently this is another name for Óláfr inn hvíti.
According to the piece I'm reading, it says it's Norse, but it 
      
doesn't 
  
look very Norse to me, and would seem to be completely devoid of 
meaning in Old Norse.
Or is it?
All the best,
Simon 
      
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