Editing Kvasir (section)

==Name==
The etymology of the name is uncertain.<ref name="Vries">{{Cite book|last=Vries|first=Jan de|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=so8eAAAAIAAJ&q=kvasir&pg=PA319|title=Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch|date=1961|publisher=Brill Archive|language=de| page=336}}</ref><ref name="Zavaroni">{{Cite book|page=69
|editor1=Erika Langbroek|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o0N7Sjh7EvoC&q=kvasir%2520mead&pg=PA69|title=Amsterdamer Beiträge Zur Älteren Germanistik, Band 61 
|editor2=Arend Quak
|editor3=Annelies Roeleveld|editor4=Paula Vermeyden|date=2006|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=978-90-420-1859-4|language=en}}</ref> The root ''kvas-'' in ''Kvas-ir'' likely stems from the [[Proto-Germanic]] base *''kvass''-, meaning "to squeeze, squash, crush, bruise". Regarding this etymology, [[linguistics|linguist]] [[Albert Morey Sturtevant]] comments that "fluids may result from the crushing or pressing of an object (cf. [[Danish language|Dan]]. ''kvase'' 'to crush something in order to squeeze out the juice'). Hence we are justified in assuming the stem syllable in ''kvas-ir'' has reference to the fluid ([[saliva]]) out of which he was created and that the name ''Kvas-ir'' denotes the person who possesses the characteristic qualities inherent in this fluid, viz., poetic inspiration and wisdom."<ref name="STURTEVANT1149-1150">Sturtevant (1952:1149—1150)</ref>

The same root ''kvas-'' may also be related to [[kvass]], a [[Fermentation in food processing|fermented]] drink of the [[Slavic peoples]].<ref name="Vries" /><ref name="Zavaroni" /> The common Slavic word stems from [[Proto-Slavic]] [[wikt:Appendix:Proto-Slavic/kvasъ|*''kvasъ'']] ("leaven", "[[fermented drink]]") and ultimately from [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] base [[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/kwh₂et-|''*kwh₂et-'']].<ref>Trubachyov (1987:153)</ref> This etymological connection, as considered by some scholars ([[Alexander Afanasyev]],<ref name="Afanasyev">{{Cite book|last=Н|first=Афанасьев А.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r-d3BAAAQBAJ|page=260|title=Поэтические воззрения славян на природу|date=8 September 2014|publisher=Directmedia|isbn=978-5-4458-9827-6|language=ru}}</ref> [[Richard Heinzel]],<ref name=Heinzel>Heinzel (1889:82)</ref> [[J.J. Mikkola|Jooseppi Julius Mikkola]],<ref name="Mikkola">{{Cite web|title=331 (Arkiv for/för nordisk filologi / Nittonde Bandet. Ny följd. Femtonde bandet. 1903)|url=https://runeberg.org/anf/1903/0339.html|access-date=9 January 2023|website=runeberg.org|language=da}}</ref> [[Georges Dumézil]],<ref name="Dumézil">{{Cite book|last=Dumézil|first=Georges|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rurD1yd0Ok0C&q=kvas%2520kvasir|title=Gods of the Ancient Northmen|date=1974|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-03507-2|language=en
|translator= Einar Ingvald Haugen|page=21}}</ref> et al.), is motivated by the consideration of kvasir as a personification of [[Fermentation (food)|fermented]] beverages.