[gothic-l] Re: ZDF Program on the Goths

[keth at ONLINE.NO]

George Knysh wrote:
>
>******GK: Poles contend that the etymology of the
>place name near Gdynia which gave its name to the
>pre-Wielbark Oksywie culture is Old Scandinavian...
>Allegedly "OXIHOVED", meaning "ox's head". Can our
>Scandinavian list participants verify this?*****

Normalized according to the Icelandic norm, we have

Old Norse  "oxi" (m.) = a bull; "ho,fuð" (n.) = a head.
"oxahofuð" (n.) = a bull's head.

Gothic we have "auhsa" and "haubiþ".

Cheers
Keth



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