haliurunna

Etymology
One common view as presented by Köbler (2014) is that it is borrowed from, from +. This would make it an exact cognate of 🇨🇬, and closely related to 🇨🇬 as well as 🇨🇬.

A possible problem with this view which Köbler does not address is that there is no morphological indication (through a suffix or otherwise) that such a compound would refer to an agent instead of an abstract concept. After all, simply means "mystery", not "one versed in mysteries" as one would expect given the meaning "witch". However, this is also true for the Old English cognate, which despite an apparent lack of a suffix indicating an agent noun nonetheless means "sorceress". It may be a bahuvrihi compound, which would address this objection. Old English does, however, also have a suffixed synonym in the related.

The above-mentioned reconstruction is rejected by Scardigli (1973), whose interpretation is shared by Lehmann (1986). Scardigli asserts that a reconstruction (from  + ) would be more plausible. He argues that the geminated nn in the second element is not to be interpreted as a Latinization error. In his view, it is an accurate reflection of a Gothic agent noun derived from the verb, here taken to mean "to go". The proposed second element,, would thus be taken to mean "one who goes" (similar sense in Modern English runner). The entire compound would then mean "one who travels to the netherworld", referencing mythological or shamanistic journeys to, of which there are parallels in Nordic mythology. He thus rejects an etymological connection to the Old English and Old High German terms.

Noun

 * 1)  Gothic witch or sorceress
 * 2) * c. 550 AD, Jordanes, De Origine Actibusque Getarum, 121:
 * "la"

- ... repperit in populo suo quasdam magas mulieres, quas patrio sermone Haliurunnas is ipse cognominat ...

Usage notes

 * Mentioned once (in the acc. plural) in Jordanes' Getica (c. 550 AD), a history of the Goths, as a Gothic word for.