-
early borrowing from
Celtic before it lost the
initial consonant:
Gothic faírguni = "mountain,
mountain range", Old
English firgen = "mountain, mountain-woodland"...
- Perkwunos'; i.e., the
wooden mountains). Fjörgyn is
cognate with the
Gothic fairguni (𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌲𐌿𐌽𐌹), the Old
English firgen, both
meaning 'mountain', and...
- or
borrowed into Slav. as *per(g)ynja ('wooded hills'). Cf. also Goth.
fairguni and OE
firgen ('mountain'). See
Perkwunos for
further discussion. *Haljō...
- glitmunjandei,
bagme bloma, blauandei, ****rafahsa, liþulinþi,
fraujinondei fairguni. The
birch bears fine
leaves on
shining boughs, it
grows pale
green and...
- Perkūnas,
Latvian Pērkons and
Finnish Perkele "god of thunder",
Gothic fairguni "mountain", and
Mordvin language Pur'ginepaz. RV 5.83 in the translation...
- the
wooded mountains, the
personification of what
appears in
Gothic as
fairguni ('wooded mountain'). Additionally, the
Baltic tradition mentions a perpetual...
- glitmunjandei,
bagme bloma, blauandei, ****rafahsa, liþulinþi,
fraujinondei fairguni. The
birch bears fine
leaves on
shining boughs, it
grows pale
green and...
-
compound of
firgen ('wooded height', 'mountain') (compare with
Gothic fairguni ('mountain'), Old High
German Fergunna ('Ore Mountains')) and
bucca ('buck')...
-
Middle High German: Virginâl
Uncertain origin.
Possibly related to
Gothic fairguni ("mountain"), OE
firgen ("mountain forest")and Old
Norse Fjörgyn, but with...
-
resembles the
romance word "virgin", it may in fact be
connected with
Gothic fairguni,
meaning mountain.
Compare also Anglo-Saxon firgen,
meaning mountain woodland...
