[gothic-l] Eruli: The IE Etymology XI

[Bertil Haggman]

"Antonsen (1975) is reluctant to offer an etymology for erilaR 
(erilaz) in his transcription): 'etymologically obscure, perhaps
a derivative of proto indoeuropean '/er-/, cf. Go. airus 
'messenger', Lat. orior 'arise', Lith erelis, arelis 'eagle' (?).
This is a rather eclectic set of cognates; as far as I know,
airus is always taken for airus with long first vowel (cf. Olc. eri,
pl) and has been mentioned by noone else in this connection.

Two important recent proposals involve different roots altogether.
In two articles...Jan de Vries proposed a root *er- cognate
with Sanskrit aryah, 'lord, hospitable lord',...'master of a house'...
aryama, Avestan airyaman 'companion, host, deity name', and
covering the semantic fields 'worldly and divine sovereignty' and
'the people of social construct.' This root would have
two triplets of derivatives in Germanic, each triplet dividing
up these semantic 'functions' (in Dumézil's sense)..."

Erulically

Bertil


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