[gothic-l] Re: Gothic Gods

[llama_nom]

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wrote:
> *****
> 
> Llama Nom,
> your reconstruction and explanation of Gothic *Gaizawandils 
> as <wandering star> looks very attractive 
> (maybe a more correct is <star wanderer>?). 
> Accepting them as a whole I'd suggest 
> a Slavonic origin for <Gaiza-> 
> (cf. Polish <gwiazda>, Russian <zvezda> - star).
> 
> Vladimir


Vladimir,

I don't know the rules for matching up cognates in Germanic and 
Slavonic, but in this instance gaiza- is a reconstruction of a word 
meaning "spear", found in all the Germanic languages, and a common 
name-forming element.  It probably comes from an IE root (cf. Greek 
gaison, Old Irish gae).  To be honest I was just having bit of wild 
speculation.  To look at it sceptically, there is every chance that 
the name was invented by Saxo or some other Norse mythographer to 
match Orwendil.  But, who knows, maybe the this was a later 
rationalisation of an old name whose original meaning was no longer 
comprehensible in Scandinavia.  Or maybe it was assimilated to the 
Germanic word long before.  What is the oldest recorded form of 
gwiazda / zvesda?

Llama Nom





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