Evergreen Dazed wrote:
tiompan wrote:
moss wrote:
tiompan wrote:
That seems more like an idea based on wishful thinking than etymology . Are there any examples in Celtic /Germanic languages with a change from oo - w ? Wherereas the Fergusson suggestion , old German swal, meaning swell or whirpool is not only more likely it 's at least etymologically sound .
Interestingly there is another legend along the Kennet, somewhere outside Marlborough at a place named Werg....
"The strangely named hamlet of Werg was a community of nine dwellings on the River Kennet."One of the many pools on the river, as it wove its way through the water meadows was "Nicker Pool", where it is said the water spirits played. When the climatic conditions are right, the whirling wraiths can still be seen, so that the local name had good cause to be established."
I don't think it's mentioned elsewhere?
Plenty cunts about but as you say Dames is probaly wrong as you might expect .
