[gothic-l] Gothic word for wicca, and wicce

[Le Bateman]

How can wicca be related to witan. I must have missed something
somewhere. Unless wi is considered the root. I  definitely need to get John
Clark-Hall's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Or Bosworth's. Anyway Thank you
Le
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From: "M. Carver" <me at matthewcarver.com>
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Hails Le

There is no extant cognate for OE'wicce' or 'wicca' to my knowledge, unless
you accept a reconstruction according to
what is often proposed as the derivation, i.e. from the verb 'witan' "to
know" > OE witega 'prophet, seer', as well
as OIc vitka = ? Go *witika or witeiga, though often thought to be from
something like LGmc *wikanan or *wekjanan
"to bend, crook" (> **wikja) Something used with a similar meaning to
'witch' is, perhaps, *haljoruna, *haljaruna.

-matthew

Grimm has suggested *walakusjo for valkyrie.


Le Bateman wrote:

>   I would like to know the Gothic word for wicca, and wicce and any proto
> Gothic word, and  what the root is and the sources for this please. Also
the
> definition as well. Someone from another list told me it meant wisdom. I
had
> seen
> a definition to bend or to  twist. Also just curious  in Wulfstan's
Address
> to the English. He uses the word wælcyrige  what Gothic equivalent is
there.
> Thank you
> Le
>
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