R: [gothic-l] Anagastes?

[dirk at SMRA.CO.UK]

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, "Giuseppe Pagliarulo" <g.pagliarulo at t...> 
wrote:
> Matthaius melida:
> 
> <<This is Anagastus or Anagastes, Schoenfeld gives Anagasts, but
> according to
> Koebler it is probably "ungermanisch" i.e. ungermanic. If Gmc. it
> could
> conceivably be Anagasts, i.e. High-Spirit or Frenzy?>>
> 
> Warning! we have a German-Gothic false friend here. Remember that a
> Gothic *gaists should probably mean "terror" or "frenzy", not
> "spirit". So if we take it to be from *Anagaists it may mean
> "over-terror" or something like that--or maybe it's from *Hanagaists
> "the terror of chickens", who knows :)
> 
> Iosef Strawarila
>   ________________________________________
>                                Iþ gamain mis ist,
>   hvaþro afleiþau; jainaþ auk aftra qima. (Parmainides)



I really haven't got a clou about Gothic, but I thought the name part 
**gast** as in Germanic names like Arbogast, Leugast etc. means 
friend, guest (modern German 'Gast').

best 
Dirk







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