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

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Monday, October 6, 2003, 13:59
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