[gothic-l] Grimm's Inventions

[M. Carver]

Hails

Following are some neologisms or inventions of Gothic terminology
which Grimm supposed possible or likely in his Teutonic Mythology.
Enjoy. Note word for "boar", while Gothic already has bers, Ma boar
ibrs, aibrs Ma boar according to Koebler.

-Mat?aius

*giugi or giugja   giant(ess)
*wrisa   giant
* ragineriqvis  ON. ragnarökr
_haft   in religious sense
_band   in religious sense
*waitjan   accomplish, do (worship)
*waiti or *waits  reverence
*waitisloth  feast, banquet (of worship?)
*andaikan  L. delibor
*andáikan  immolare (sacrifice)
*láuhs   sacred grove
+freidjan   in the sense of "give sanctuary"
*gudiggs  tribunus
*lauhan   > lauhatjan
*naur?s   north
*Nair?us  god ON. Niord
*Baldrs   god ON. Balder
*baldrs   prince
*Nan?o   goddess ON. Nanna
*Ha?us   god ON. Hoder
*Ogeis   god ON. Oegir
*Laúha or *Luka  god ON. Loki
*Fanareis  Fenrir wolf
*Saurs   a goddess, Freya ON. “S?r”.
*Fraujo   ON. Freya
*Breisigge mani  Brising-necklace
*Gardi / Gardja, gen. Gardijos goddess ON. Gerdr
*Sibja   goddess Sif
*Nan?o   goddess Nothe or ON. Nanna, wife of Baldr
*Halja, gen. Haljos goddess Hel or Hell
*hul   hole
*hali?s   hero
*Hazdiggs  the Herdings of myth
*Frauja   ON. Freyr
*Baura   ON. Buri (i.e. first-born)
*Barus   ON. Börr
*izdo, Izdo  edda, ON. Edda
*Airmana   Ermino
*Gauts   Geat, Gapt
*Skaufs, *Skildwa, *Taitwa (possible predecessors of Gauts)
*Eisarna   Isarna
*Widugauja  a mythic dryadic being
*Waur?s, Wair?andei, Skuld The Fates
*Walakusjo  Valkyrie
*albs pl. -os or -eis / *albi gen. *albjos elf
*dwairgs   dwarf
skohsl >   sense of “wood-sprite”
*skogs, gen. skogis forest, wood
*biutan, baut butum strike, beat
*itanos = itos < Itans Etins pl. ? or Jutes. (Eater)
*?aurs pl. *?aursos or *?aursis pl *?aursjos, or *?aursus pl. *?aursjus,
or *?aursja pl *?aursjans  Thurse, Giant (Drinker)
*trallu   troll, giant, being of magic power
*hrugga   rode, pole, virga
*austroneis  Easterners?
*bais   boar
*gauks   cuckoo bird
*lin?s   ? cf. Lint-
*hiban, *hiba, *haf  verbal source of hebhan, hevan, heofan - cog. with
Lat. capio
*niuji?s   new moon
*dogr   day, day and night
*sumrus   summer
*teihslo, teihsla  appartaus by which the wagon is moved on
*teihsma   ? time cf. teihs-
*wairal?s or waire al?s world
*braihvan, *brahv, *brehvum blink, flicker, glance, twinkle
*Swartus   god Surtur
*stauadags  judgment day, doomsday
*Hleins   god(des?) Hlin
*inwaits   knowing singer, poet, soothsayer
*drupan cf. trudan  strike, hit, hit upon, find
*Wrata   ? god(dess) of journeying or passage?
*Hul?o   goddess personalized “Kind Spirit” also, perhaps *Waihts
*wairawulfs  werewolf
*hidan, *had, *hedum    cover or dress with skin
*Wisanda-wandalareis OHG Wisantgang
*Eiriggs   OHG Irinc
*lubi   “herb” < lubja-leisei
*mistiltains  mistletoe
*bibauts = ?
*airknastains  arkenstone, precious jewel
*marigriuts  for markrietus


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