Note 551 — Chapter VIII · THE MAY-GAME
Reading edition
The O. H. G. hîleih, originally meaning ‘sex-dance,’ comes to be ‘wedding.’ The root hi, like wini (cf. p. 170), has a sexual connotation (Pearson, ii. 132; Kögel, i. 1. 10).
Reading edition
The O. H. G. hîleih, originally meaning ‘sex-dance,’ comes to be ‘wedding.’ The root hi, like wini (cf. p. 170), has a sexual connotation (Pearson, ii. 132; Kögel, i. 1. 10).