Re: Natlang Help: Do you know of a language that...
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 3, 2003, 16:23 |
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At 21:58 2.10.2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:
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> > 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! :-)
/BP 8^)
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