Processi di derivazione e composizione nell’onomastica norrena dell’Edda poetica: l’origine dei nomi in -r-i-r (*-Vr-ija-) e il loro rapporto con i nomi in -Vr-r (*-Vra-) e con i nomi composti

Taking as its starting point the analysis of four formations attested in the Poetic Edda – two names of Odin, Sviðrir and Viðrir, the personal name Þórir, and the mythological wolf name Fenrir – this study proposes the reconstruction of the following onomastic system: Eddic proper names in -r-i-r (*-Vr-ija-) are -i-r (*-ija-) derivatives of onomastic formations in -Vr-r (*-Vra-), whose derivational bases (nouns and adjectives) often correspond to the first elements of compound personal names referring to the same entities.