LL-L "Lexicon" 2005.07.15 (07) [D/E]

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From: Luc Hellinckx <luc.hellinckx at gmail.com>
Subject: Lexicon

Hi Hyazinth (and Ron and Heather too ;-) ),

Southern Brabantish also has "Goensdag" for Dutch "Woensdag", but has no
Frisian substrate. This is what the etymological dictionary of De
Vries-De Tollenaere says about the phenomenon:

Woensdag: Vertaling van lat. diês Mercurii. In de plaats van Mercurius
stelden de Germanen de god die os. Wôdan, oe. Wôden, on. Oðinn heet,
welke naam afgeleid is van het germ. woord /woede/. Men kan dit
uitleggen als een aanduiding van de 'god der goden' (vgl. /das wütende
Heer/), maar het kan ook wijzen op het extatische karakter van een god
die zowel de krijgswoede als de geestvervoering van dichters en
tovenaars tot zijn domein had.
Er is ook een bijvorm /goensdag/ (reeds mnl. 1282) wsch. het gevolg van
een opzettelijke wijziging (vgl. in Duitsland /gudensdag/) met als doel
het heidens karakter van de naam te verdoezelen, zoals in /Godesberg =
Wôdanesberg/.

Lombardic also had a g-form "Godan", and most (if not all) Germanic
words that ever made it into French changed initial _w_ to _g_

"want" (fingerless glove) (D) > "gant" (French)
"war" (E) ~ "verwarring" (D) > "guerre" (French)
"warranty" (E) > "garantie" (French)
"ward" (E) > "garde" (French) (imported back into (E) later on as "guard")
"wasp"(E), "wesp" (D) > "guêpe" (French)
...

Maybe this tells us something about the vocal quality of Old Germanic
(?Franconian?) initial "w", being not as voiceless as it is now, but
somewhat like "hw", or even "gw"...with a lot of aspiration I mean.

Kind greetings,

Luc Hellinckx

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