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Author: Bill
Email: willliambargren at earthlink dot net
Date: 2005-09-04 23:26:49
Subject: Re: Torp, page b0409, entry 3
This is a margin comment on: Torp, page b0409, entry 3
A correction to my own letter: Wacor is not an adjective of "wike" as "officer," but of "wica" as "awakening." "Wike" as "officer," has a variant spelled "wica." I apologize for mixing homonyms and variants, but I rushed the last posting, and didn't catch the error until this evening. My question, however, remains: Could "witga" (as wise man) have been correctly pronounced "wicker" in the area now known as Hampshire? If not, does anybody know of ANY Germanic or proto-Germanic word OTHER THAN WACOR and VAKR (and variantions), pronounced "wicker" or similarly, meaning "wise," "knowing," "awakened," or "enlightened?"
Thank you.
Bill
> Thank you for the previous explanation. Can you, please, help me with this entry?
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> "vikkan m. Zauberer. ags. wicca m. Zauberer, wicce Zauberin (engl. witch); md. wicker Zauberer, Wahrsager, wicken zaubern; germ. -kk- aus ig. kn . Vgl. ags. wîgol zum Wahrsagen gegehörig, wîglian wahrsagen"
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> I'm interested in the (md.???) word "wicker" here, expecially in connection with "vikkan," "wicca," "wicce," and "wiken." I've been told that one pronunciation, or a dialectal pronunciation, of Old English "wicce" is "wicker." I've also been told that this is a dialectal pronunciation of Old English "wike" (as officer, advisor). The adjectival form of "wike" is "wacor" and "wocor" (and variant spellings), and I'm wondering whether the claimed dialectal pronunciation isn't simply this. One Middle English makeover of "wacor" is "weker" (awakened, enlightened).
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> Also, can you draw a connection between Old English "witga" as "wise man," and "wicker" (in any early Germanic language)? Is there any chance that "witga" could have been pronounced "wicker," especially in the region now occupied by Hampshire County (England's East coast)?
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> Thank you
| Messages in this thread | Name | College/University | Date |
 Torp, page b0409, entry 3 |
Bill |
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2005-09-03 23:07:10 |
| Re: Torp, page b0409, entry 3 |
Bill |
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2005-09-04 23:26:49 |