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SUMMARY
In Norse Mythology Són was the name of one of the vessels in which the blood of
Kvasir was kept. Previous etymological association of this word with OHG. suona
‘atonement’, etc., is shown to be semantically weak. The present paper suggests that
Són, being a vessel for blood, is to be associated with I.-E. *H\éH2r ‘blood’ (cf. Hitt.
e-es-har, etc.). More precisely, Olcel. Són can be seen as representing an original I,-
E. collective *H\ésH2ör, whose initial normal grade was replaced by a zero grade on
the analogy of the oblique cases (e.g. gen. sg. *H\sH2n-és). The resulting *H\sH2ör
yielded Gmc. *sör, which lost its heteroclitic flexion and was reshaped to *sön. The
whole precedure has a clear parallel in Goth. fon ‘fire’, which stands for earlier *för
<— *fwör from I.-E. *pH2uör that has replaced an earlier *péH2uör, the collective to
*péH2ur ‘fire’.