Thanks a lot everybody, it's nice to know more aboot the words I use.

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Mar sin leibh, an-drasta
~Aodh MacUisdean

> The traditional theory is that 'vargr' originally was a
> synonym for 'ulfr' and later aquired new connotations
> such as "outlaw". (The outlaw is like a wolf.)
>
> More recently it has been proposed that the original meaning
> of 'vargr' is "criminal" and that "wolf" is a later figurative
> meaning. (The wolf is like an outlaw.)
>
> It turns out that the second theory is, if anything, more
> consistent with what is preserved from the various Germanic
> languages.
>
> The traditional zero-hypothesis is that the meaning of words
> moves from concrete (a specific type of animal) to more abstract
> (a man out of accordance with the community) and especially that
> primitive societies had (have) a very concrete vocabulary.
>
> I have not researched the matter sufficiently to have an
> independent opinion.
>
> Kve�ja,
> Haukur.
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