[gothic-l] Re: anda

[Anþanareiks]

Hails Keþ!
Thanks,
> I hope this gave you some further ideas.

I think it will. I wanted to see what connections  there are and its 
varied meanings. You have some great resources.  

þuk,

Anþanareiks






> Well, from here I just look it up in the etymological
> books. e.g. Jan de Vries, that I usually find very
> clear:
> 
> ON "andi" m. = breath, spirit.
> Scottish aynd; middle English aand, aynd, oonde;
> Old English oroð, oouð, orð (< *uz-anþ) 'breath',
> and without dental suffix Gothic uzanan 'to breathe
> out'.  Latin animus (=soul, spirit), anima (=breeze
> or breath). Greek anemos (=wind). Old Indian ániti
> (=it breathes), ánila (=wind, breath). Old Slavic
> achati (=to give off fragrance), vonja (=?). Old
> Irish anim (=soul), anal (=breath). Cf. anda,
> angi 1, anna, ond 3 and onn 2.
> 
> So you see that I have to look up a number of other
> words here. Well, I won't do that now.
> 
> I can however look up Gothic uzanan, which is a verb of class 6,
> it says, and it means to breathe out. See Mc 15, 37.39.
> 
> I also see that Lehmann has the same entries under *uz-anan
> (U 67) as Jan de Vries has under andi. Since I already quoted
> de Vries, there is no need to quote Lehmann here, since he has
> the exact same correspondences. And this is also the case
> for the Skt. correspondences.
> 
> But I still haven't looked under ahma, and for that I can
> use Lehmann (A 55). Here he quotes Skt. asman; Av, O.Pers. asman
> stone, sky. Greek akmon =anvil, thunderbolt. He also says it is from
> root "aha", but that Lutze assumes influence from *anan (=breathe)
> as in *uz-anan (=to exhale).
> 
> Lehmann points then to "aha" (A 52)= nous, mind, understanding.
> Also ahma = pneuma, spirit, and *ahmeins = spiritual, *ahmateins=
> inspiration. Also interesting: OHG ahta, and Old Norse ætla,
> that he says are related. As you know On "ætla" means to plan
> or to have in mind. If I now take a loop back to de Vries again,
> I may find more words. In fact de Vries then comes up with
> Gothic ahjan (=to believe) and ahma (=spirit, mind) (under ON ætla
> that is).



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