Some new words

llama_nom 600cell at OE.ECLIPSE.CO.UK
Mon Apr 16 19:50:57 UTC 2007


> drunjus seems to have as much vocal association as saggweis, though
the latter has been shown in sense of "vocal music". Is there a more
neutral "noise" or "sound" word?

A bit speculative, but ON hljóð covers both the sense "hearing" (like
Go. hliuma, man.), "silence" (in which to listen, to give someone a
hearing); and "sound".  Could it be that Go. hliuma had this range of
meanings too?  Or we could reconstruct *hliuþ, na. "sound".

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