>Assuming I understand what you mean
>(perhaps you could elaborate) I don't
>think Old Norse has that kind of honorific.
>
>Kve�ja,
>Haukur
>
>
Thanks,Haukur, for confirming what I surmised from casually inspecting the
lessons. In ancient languages, the honorific appeared either in the name
noun order ( no pronouns)...eldest first, or it was expressed as a prefix or
suffix attached to the oldest name noun. I guess the syntax didn't survive
to Old Norse. But, what of the identifiably ancestoral roots of Old Norse?
Was there any crosscultural exchange with indigenous (Saami?) tongues? or
did Old Norse derive entirely from a common Germano-Turkish origin?