[gothic-l] Gothic word for wicca, and wicce

[M. Carver]

Hails Le

There is no extant cognate for OE'wicce' or 'wicca' to my knowledge, unless you accept a reconstruction according to
what is often proposed as the derivation, i.e. from the verb 'witan' "to know" > OE witega 'prophet, seer', as well
as OIc vitka = ? Go *witika or witeiga, though often thought to be from something like LGmc *wikanan or *wekjanan
"to bend, crook" (> **wikja) Something used with a similar meaning to 'witch' is, perhaps, *haljoruna, *haljaruna.

-matthew

Grimm has suggested *walakusjo for valkyrie.


Le Bateman wrote:

>   I would like to know the Gothic word for wicca, and wicce and any proto
> Gothic word, and  what the root is and the sources for this please. Also the
> definition as well. Someone from another list told me it meant wisdom. I had
> seen
> a definition to bend or to  twist. Also just curious  in Wulfstan's Address
> to the English. He uses the word wælcyrige  what Gothic equivalent is there.
> Thank you
> Le
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