The article argues for a new scansion of the name of the wife of Loki as Old Norse Sígyn (with a heavy first syllable) and for its analysis as a reflex of Proto-Indo-European *sei̯ku̯-n̥-i̯éh2- ‘she of the pouring’, on the basis of formal and semantic considerations; exact and partial matches are identified in the Vedic lexicon (°sécanī- ‘pouring’) and in Celtic onomastics (Sēquana, name of a river and of its goddess).
Ginevra, R., Old Norse Sígyn (*sei̯ku̯-n̥-i̯éh2- ‘she of the pouring’),Vedic °sécanī- ‘pouring’, Celtic Sēquana and PIE *sei̯ku̯- ‘pour’, in Proceedings of the 29th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Los Angeles, November 3rd and 4th, 2017, (University of California, Los Angeles, 03-04 November 2017), Hempen Verlag, Bremen 2018: 65-76 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/177358]
Old Norse Sígyn (*sei̯ku̯-n̥-i̯éh2- ‘she of the pouring’), Vedic °sécanī- ‘pouring’, Celtic Sēquana and PIE *sei̯ku̯- ‘pour’
Ginevra, Riccardo
2018
Abstract
The article argues for a new scansion of the name of the wife of Loki as Old Norse Sígyn (with a heavy first syllable) and for its analysis as a reflex of Proto-Indo-European *sei̯ku̯-n̥-i̯éh2- ‘she of the pouring’, on the basis of formal and semantic considerations; exact and partial matches are identified in the Vedic lexicon (°sécanī- ‘pouring’) and in Celtic onomastics (Sēquana, name of a river and of its goddess).
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