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*Sowilō or *sæwelō is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the s-rune, meaning "sun". The name is attested for the same rune in all three rune poems. It appears as Old Norse ''sól'', Old English ''sigel'', and Gothic ''sugil''. ==Name== The Germanic words for "Sun" have the peculiarity of alternating between ''-l-'' and ''-n-'' stems, Proto-Germanic '' *sunnon'' (Old English ''sunne'', Old Norse, Old Saxon and Old High German ''sunna'') vs. *''sôwilô'' or *''saewelô'' (Old Norse ''sól'', Gothic ''sauil'', also Old High German forms such as ''suhil''). This continues a Proto-Indo-European alternation '' *suwen-'' vs. '' *sewol-'' (Avestan ''xweng'' vs. Latin ''sōl'', Greek ''helios'', Sanskrit ''surya'', Welsh ''haul'', Breton ''heol'', Old Irish ''suil'' "eye"), a remnant of an archaic, so-called "heteroclitic", declension pattern that remained productive only in the Anatolian languages. The Old English name of the rune, written ''sigel'' (pronounced ) is most often explained as a remnant of an otherwise extinct ''l-''stem variant of the word for "Sun" (meaning that the spelling with ''g'' is unetymological),〔following Jacob Grimm, ''Über Diphtongen'' (1845)(); see also e.g. Joseph Bosworth, ''A dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon language'' (1838), s.v. "Sigel"〕 but alternative suggestions have been put forward.〔 Karl Schneider, ''Die germanischen Runennamen'' (1956), p. 98; R. W. V. Elliott, ''Runes: An Introduction'' (1981), p. 56; Maureen Halsall, ''The Old English Rune poem: a critical edition'' (1981), p. 133.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sowilō」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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