[gothic-l] Re: Anagastes?

[andreas.schwarcz at UNIVIE.AC.AT]

On 22 Dec 2000, at 21:47, sig wrote:

> Thank you Andreas,
> 
>  This idg. *an, meaning ancestor, or germ. *un, *an is very active
> in the Swedish language e. g.
> as in anfader (first ancestor), pronounced ahn-fader. I get same
> feeling for an- as for German ur-. If so Anagastes would translate
> into Ur-Gasts. an- is not a prefix and must be stressed--not
> knowing this one will automatically pronounce it like the Greek
> prefix -ana. But in this case the second -a- is only a vowel
> ligation between the two words an- and gasts?

That is what Schönfeld und Kaufmann suggest. But I would not 
translate Angastes in Ur-Gasts, I would prefer Ancestor´s gasts.

Regards and season´s greetings
                     Andreas Schwarcz


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