Fotr (long o), Kollr, Knui (long u), Greipr, Grani, Hnefi, Harr (long
a), Haddr, Hals, Nefr, Skofti (usually written Skopti, where p is for
unvoiced medial f), Skeggi, Tannr (Tadr without the analogical nom.,
ed)), Bardi (ed), Munnr (Mudr without the analogical nominative, ed).
Again, men's names here. Greipr from fem. greip, Grani from fem. gron
(hooked-o), Nefr from neut. nef, Skofti from neut. skoft, Skeggi from
neut. skegg, Tannr from fem. tonn (hooked-o), Bardi from neut. bard.
A lot of gender-switching here. Most of these should be fairly
obvious to students of ON. Harr here is from har, hair, and means
hairy, not high, which stilled showed u-mutation of long a to long
hooked-o in all cases where an immeadiately following -v- had been
lost until about 1150. Skofti and Haddr a hair-names, the one with
well-combed, nice hair, etc., and Grani, Bardi, Skeggi beard-names.
Our attested feminine here is Hodd (hooked-o), strong, perhaps
surprisingly. Haddr does combine with the Thor- prefix, and *Thorhodd
is a reconstructable women's name. Greipr relates to Gripr (see
previous post), as well as Gripir and Gripnir (not discussed yet).
Kollr has a weak Kolli. Kollr is the top of the head. Otherwise,
Foot, Knuckle, Palm (there is also a Swedish inscription lofi, but
the length of o is unmarked, so that it could be a short-form of a
name with the prefix lof- - I am trying to be very careful here; but
*Lofi (long o) could be correct). Neck, nose, tooth, mouth. Also a
weak Tanni attested, Nefi, and the diminuative *Harsi, little hairy
one, but the spelling is controversial here (haursi in Swedish), and
could point to an otherwise unattested *Hor (long hooked-o), high.
Here are some more that related to the body, although not from body
parts: Knottr (hooked o), Kjotvi (hooked o), Klyppr, Kleppr, Bofi
(long o), Bosi (long o), Boddi. Boddi relates to English bud, but
describes the body; Klyppr, Kleppr compare English clump, clumpy;
Kjotvi from Kjot, meat, is meaty; Knottr, ball, is something like
round, Bosi and Bofi 2 of the harded names to describe that I know
of, not the least because Bofi does not appear to meaning in ON
anything like what it does, for example, in OHG. Something like
large, big, etc. is likely the most basic meaning here. On that
theme, let us give a few adjectival names relating to the body: Floki
(long o), although this one is really attested as a noun in ON,
something like a hair- or yarn-bundle, meshed like fishing-line wound
into a mess, here messy-haired, uncombed; Raudr, red, Kolr, coaly,
black; Karr (long a), curly; Gamall, old - not necessarily relating
to the body only, but likely here; Hvitr (long i), white; Erpr,
brown; Svartr, dark, black; Skialgr, wrong-eyed; Skeifr, crooked;
Samr (long a), dark; Brunn (long u), brown; Breidr (dh), broad;
Brattr, steep, high, meaning tall; Bleikr, pale, light-coloured,
compare hvitr; Lodinn (dh), hairy. Most of these have attested weak
forms also. An interesting Swedish variant here is Jarpi (Erpr).
There are also some attested descendant of-, related to-names, like
Brettingr. Some very old names here. OHG also has bruno, one of the
attested ON weaks here being Bruni. Our attested feminines are Hvit
and Bleik. Keep in mind the ON colour-understanding did not match
standard modern english colour-terminology, and we do not know how
dark, or how brown, is meant here, but hair seems to be the major
thing refered to here. Likely feminine reconstructions here would
include Brun (or weak Bruna, but see attested Hvit) and Svort, unless
we are to assume that these colours could not apply to women. There
is a possible tie-in to the bear, the fox, etc., in that the old IE
words for these animals do not survive in Germanic, apparently due to
the animals being taboo. This is religous, a theme we will see again
in ON personal names after tools, weapons, clothes, homes, places of
worship, and household items, items of worship, amimals, birds, and
things of nature. - Konrad