Talk:Atter

Aether
English word "Aether" got something to do with this... ??


 * En. "aether" is from Greek aither meaning upper air. Doesn't look related.

Old High German "eit"(meaning fire) is a cognate to Greek "aither" (makes sense as the Greek word itself comes from "aitho" (αἴθω) meaning "to ignite"). German "Eiter", which originally meant poison as well, is very likely not related to "eit". In Old Norse both words likely got conflatet (Proto-Germanic *aidaz meaning "fire" and Proto-Germanic *aitrą meaning "poison" with the az-ending and ra- ending both becoming "r" in Old Norse). So originally the Germanic concept of Eitr is related to the concept of Aether. It might actually be conpletely identical. Still, in Old Norse the word got conflated with *aitrą and from then on started to mean "poison", which may have given rise to the idea of Hvergelmir as the origin of the waters. I surmise that Hvergelmir originally was just a form of Tartaros. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gutdeutscher (talk • contribs) 17:16, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

Etter
I changed the Sw. form to etter - it said eter, which presumably was a typo, since that means aether, not eitr.

Ether (2)
changed Dutch from ether to etter, Ether is derived from Greek Aether.

Tomb raider ?!
Can't we just get rid off this stuff ? Popular culture trivia is really polluting articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.51.254.248 (talk) 18:25, 10 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I kind of agree. If you would delete it, I would not attempt to restore it. Nixdorf (talk)