Re: Natlang Help: Do you know of a language that...

Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> At 21:58 2.10.2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > >
> > > Is it related to Odin's raven Hugin 'thought'?
>
> Sure.  _Huginn_ [hYijen] means 'thoughtful' in Icelandic.
> It's _hug_ [hY:G] which is 'thought, mind'.
>
> And BTW 'tis _Odinn_.  With one _n_ it'd be his sister! :-)
>
> >I seem to recall that it is. But with most of my books back in Sweden I'm
> >afraid I cannot check.
>
> You'd need a book on Icelandic for that! :-)
I could have had one, y'know, but _hug_ is discussed in one of my books on Old
Scandinavian religion/mentality (the name of which I cannot at the moment
recall).


                                                     Andreas

                                                        Andreas