Note: for those not aware, a * in front of a word in a linguistic context indicates a hypothetical construction, i.e., a word that has no direct attestation but would probably have looked/been pronounced like this assuming all the rules thus far observed apply.
I thought it would be fun for those of us who are more linguistically inclined to throw out some potential names the Gods might have been called in older languages but which have no direct attestations (such as Tyr's unnamed wife, who may or may not be "Zisa/Cisa" or the "Germanic Isis" spoken of by Roman writers), or what the Gods might be called today had their worship not ceased.
I'm mostly inspired by Freya (with whom I'm getting closer all the time), having learned recently that Her name's cognate in Old English is the word "frowe" ("frua" in Old Saxon, all meaning "lady" in Modern English). Combined with the fact that, to make a long story short, Freya and Frigga likely used to be the same Goddess, and the likely connection between Frigga's name and the Proto-Germanic root-word (*frijaz) that became Modern English's "free" (but which also used to mean "beloved" in addition to the modern context), I've constructed this:
*Frowafree
as an English name for Frigga/Freya, who's name can also translate to that of the modern American archetype, "Lady Liberty", indicating Her free spirit. For the more linguistically-minded, the "a" is in there because according to Wiktionary, the gentive singular declension of the Old English "frowe" is "frowan".
While mostly for fun, it could also help provide potential names to Gods who've been forgotten.
EDIT: Oh, and as an aside, I've more or less decided that the modern archetype of Lady Luck is our Loki, even though the words are not likely related, because they both serve effectively the same function.
I thought it would be fun for those of us who are more linguistically inclined to throw out some potential names the Gods might have been called in older languages but which have no direct attestations (such as Tyr's unnamed wife, who may or may not be "Zisa/Cisa" or the "Germanic Isis" spoken of by Roman writers), or what the Gods might be called today had their worship not ceased.
I'm mostly inspired by Freya (with whom I'm getting closer all the time), having learned recently that Her name's cognate in Old English is the word "frowe" ("frua" in Old Saxon, all meaning "lady" in Modern English). Combined with the fact that, to make a long story short, Freya and Frigga likely used to be the same Goddess, and the likely connection between Frigga's name and the Proto-Germanic root-word (*frijaz) that became Modern English's "free" (but which also used to mean "beloved" in addition to the modern context), I've constructed this:
*Frowafree
as an English name for Frigga/Freya, who's name can also translate to that of the modern American archetype, "Lady Liberty", indicating Her free spirit. For the more linguistically-minded, the "a" is in there because according to Wiktionary, the gentive singular declension of the Old English "frowe" is "frowan".
While mostly for fun, it could also help provide potential names to Gods who've been forgotten.
EDIT: Oh, and as an aside, I've more or less decided that the modern archetype of Lady Luck is our Loki, even though the words are not likely related, because they both serve effectively the same function.
