[gothic-l] Re: vaerul

[Ingemar Nordgren]

Hi Valúlfr,

The prefix 'var-' means 'guard, to guard, to defend' like in German
wehren, Swedish värja. Simplified you could consider a wolf a kind of
"wild dog" and so call him a guard-dog. It has nothing with English
'war' to do unless there may be an original meaning of defence in that
word, which of course is possible. In any case the meaning here is
defensive - not offensive.This you could also find of the
Riga-protocol we spoke of earlier.

Best
Ingemar


--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "hrafnsnest" <wulfsligrs at c...> wrote:
> Hails Alls!
  And, am I correct in 
> assuming that the standard interpretation of the prefix (var-) is the 
> same as "vargr" / "warg", and finally to "were"-wolf.



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