From: akoddsson
Message: 4429
Date: 2004-09-18
> Sæll, Konni!I see your point. Perhaps frjádagr is both safer and more correct.
>
> I think we should be careful in drawing conclusions
> from the Faroese form 'fríggjadagur'. The 'gg' need
> not be original but may be an example of the Faroese
> 'sharpening'.
> I see Þorsteinn Vilhjálmsson, a physics professor hereI doubt if germanic folk, especially the more isolated nordic ones,
> at the university, insists it must have been 'Freyjudagr'.
> His evidence, however, seems insufficient. It may not have
> been as 'obvious' in the time the names were adapted that
> Venus should correspond to Freyja rather than Frigg.
>
> http://visindavefur.hi.is/svar.asp?id=4452
> Kveðja,naming
> Haukur
>
>
> > Heilir góðir nemendr!
> > Greetings good students!
> >
> > I ma not sure when Germanic folk first picked up the habit of
> > the days of the 7-day week as they do, nor for that matterwhether
> > there were 7 days or not in earlier editions of the Germanicweek,
> > but the custom is generally considered to be quite old. In viewof
> > this, some early norse versions could prove interesting to someof
> > you. The asteriks mean that the forms can be reconstructed, butare
> > not actually found written or heard spoken as such. Thesefollowing
> > are all standard for Proto-Norse (here shown from +/- 300-400AD), an
> > era during which the language is thought to have been quitestable
> > and conservative. The Old Norse forms are also shown forcomparison
> > and a few issues pointed out.of
> >
> > *sunnôn dagaz - sunnudagr (sunnu + dagr)
> > *mânôn dagaz - mánadagr (mána + dagr)
> > *tîwas dagaz - týsdagr (týs + dagr)
> > *wôdanas dagaz - óðinsdagr (óðins + dagr)
> > *þunras dagaz - þórsdagr (þórs + dagr)
> > *frijôz dagaz - friggjardagr (friggjar + dagr)
> > *laugôz dagaz - laugardagr (laugar + dagr)
> >
> > The first 4 are considered unproblematic, except for the dating
> > the generalization of -an over -ôn for all masculine n-stems,which
> > effects only *manôn dagaz. *þunras dagaz could also be *þonrasdagaz
> > - it depends on whether the a-mutation of u (making it o)occurred
> > before or after loss of the nasal (n). Old English has þunresdæg,
> > for comparison, and Old English almost always matches Old Norsewhen
> > it comes to a-mutation, whereas other Germanic languages differvery
> > widely in this respect. I chose friggjardagr over frjádagrbecause I
> > think it is more original. Faroese has friggjardagr, which isquite
> > specific, whereas frjádagr is more generic (and problematic). Thealso
> > last one, *laugôz dagaz, could be specific to Old Norse, which
> > has laugar-aptann, laugar-kveld, and laugar-nátt, showing thatthe
> > use is probably quite old. I thought some of you might enjoyseeing
> > something on this topic.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Konrad
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