[gothic-l] Athanareiks = Heidrek?

[M. Carver]

on 12/2/00 4:24 PM, sig at sigmund at algonet.se wrote:

> Me too . . . contagious? :-D  What if the initial laryngeal
> was kept and thus gave origin to both hauhiths, *haiths,
> haid- and "heder" in addition to the dropped-laryngeal
> (h)aiza, ai(u)r, "ära"??
> 
> I'd like to know what Matt thinks of this bold theory.
> 
> I admit that when it comes to athan with a presumed stem of
> *hat- or *hath- is a little difficult to reconcile with the
> stem *haiz- (is it?) so Athanareiks and Heidrek may then
> have different origins but convey two different kinds of
> honor.
> 
> Nihil erat demonstrandum,
> 
> Seigmund

Hails!

You are correct that they cannot have the same origin. Gmc. h- /x-/ < PIE
k-, thus an h-initial stem in Go. would go back to a k-initial root in PIE
while the vowel initial, as you correctly point out (according to more
recent PIE studies) would have as the initial consonant one of several
laryngeals that existed in PIE. In any case Go. *aiza- does not likely go
back to a k-initial PIE root.

Cheers,
Matþaius




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