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Author: Curt
Email: curtbargren at earthlink dot net
Date: 2005-09-16 14:18:47
Subject: Re: Torp, page b0409, entry 3
This is a margin comment on: Torp, page b0409, entry 3
Thank you very much. Do you know if this Middle German word "wicker" has an adjectival form? Also, do you know where "wicker" comes from?
Curt
> > Could somebody, please, translate this passage for me? Or if not the
> > entire passage, the word "wicker." Also, what are
> > Zauberer, Zauberin, and Zaubern?
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> All right.
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> vikkan m. [masculine] magician. Old English wicca m. magician, wicce female-magician (English witch); Middle German wicker magician, soothsayer; wicken to do magic; Germanic -kk- from Indo-European kn
. Compare Old English wîgol pertaining to soothsaying, wîglian to tell fortunes.
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> --Sean
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Torp, page b0409, entry 3