>>4937
>It should be Day, Sky, Year.
You seem to understand.
Unless you write the names with runes, using old names is pointless, and even then it's pointless to use reconstructed names based on the latin alphabet, where the phonemes don't corresponds to the old futhark.
It's not Ideal to say Elk, when the successor sound in English seems to be -lch, like belch.
Ideal, would be to find out how the names were spelled in the old Futhark, because that meant you could recreate the language this encoded.
In a time where there were no dictionaries, and nobody you could ask about the meaning of some word, the words that had its meaning spelled out by the runes used to write the word, won out in the evolutionary race.
What you did not get, was assurance that they spoke the words the same, if they lived apart and only traded, so when the knowledge of writing became common, and one no longer spoke the words as they were written, the Old futhark were dropped. and the Anglo-Saxon, Younger Futhark, marcomannic Futhark took over, where the writing seems to have been phonetic based on the local dialect, in stead of the runes spelling what the word meant.
Interesting for BMW here, is if the futhark was used to make new concepts, concepts it was hard to get a critical mass to understand and use it, before they could use the futhark to understand newly coded words they come over.
We don't have much written in the old futhark, so that can't be used, but there is plenty written with younger runes in many languages, so reconstructing the UR-spelling of the rune names, should be possible.