From: thunk <gmkoller@...>
Date: 2010-04-01T19:55:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Playing Games with "Ruids"

On Apr 1, 5:15 am, thunk <gmkol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>  Fé er frćnda róg
>
> ok flćđar viti
> ok grafseiđs gata
> aurum fylkir.
>
> (source of discord among kinsmen
> and fire of the sea
> and path of the serpent.)
>
> ok skára ţverrir
> ok hirđis hatr.
> umbre vísi
>
> lamentation of the clouds
> and ruin of the hay-harvest
> and abomination of the shepherd.

OHG. has reita “vereda, (44) reda, chariot,” rîtari, ritari “horseman,
rider,” rîtan “ride,” reiti “paratus,” gareiti “biga, falera,
quadriga,” AS rád “riding, journey, way,” rad “cart, chariot,” rídan
“to ride,” ridda “knight, rider,” raed, hraed, geraed “swift, quick,
ready,” ONorse rîđa “to ride,” greiđa “to make ready,” etc., OIrish
riadaim “I drive,” reid, OWelsh ruid, OBreton roed “plain, smooth.”
From this group cannot be separated Goth. ga-redan “to have a mind
to,” for in the compounds ur-redan, faura-ga-redan this redan has the
meaning “arrange, determine.” This at once connects ONorse ráđa, AS.
ráedan, OHG. râtan “advice,” etc., with it. In the German gerät
“advice, tool, harness” we have the two meanings connected. In the
Slavic languages we have two series, rad- and rend- , which belong
here. The first, giving Russian rad “prepared, glad,” Polish rada
“advice,” etc., is obviously derived from the German. The nasalised
form, which, however, in Lithuanian and Lettish also occurs
unnasalised, is unquestionably older. We have OBulgarian redu, Bulg.
red, Pol. rzad “order,” Lith. rinda “row,” redas “order,” Let. redit,
rinda, rist, ridu “to arrange.”

redan “to have a mind to...

 ONorse rîđa “to ride,”


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