[gothic-l] Re: Anagastes? + Q. on diphtongs?

[anthony.appleyard@umist.ac.uk]

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, sig <sigmund at a...> wrote:
> A neighbouring village here is called Svinhult
> ('Swineholt') which is less funny to its villagers. Svein(s) Holt
> would be a more likely interpretation.

"Swine-wood" seems sensible to me, In the old days often farmers
hadn't got the feed to feed their pigs in sties, but the pigs had to
be let out to look for food acorns, beech-mast, etc) in woods like
their wild ancestors did.


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