[gothic-l] first person n runes; Thiudaworda; etc

[Tim O'Neill]

Anthony Appleyard wrote:

>    "Tim O'Neill" <scatha at bigpond.com> wrote (Subject: '*Thiudawordaz' /
> '*Thiudaiworda'?(crosspost)):-
> > My problem is the name.  At this stage the site is called  '*Thiudawordaz'
> > which was my guess at Primitive Germanic for 'People Words'. ...
>
> Or should it be {Theuda-}? Roman sources have {saltus tEUtoburgensis} and the
> name {thEOdoricus}, with E not I. But with {Theodoricus} for {theudari:kaz} or
> {thiudari:kaz} there is the risk that the name was subjected to "Ypres to
> Wipers" -style distortion to the familiar by Romans to Greek {theo-dor-ikos} =
> "related to a gift given by a god".

Actually, it could be '*Theuda-'.  I think the form 'Theodoric' for
'Thiudareiks
is due to the similarity of Greek names beginning with 'Theo-', but
according
to Wright, some Gothic words containing 'iu' would have had 'eu' in
P Gmc.  But I've read his sections on these vowels a couple of times and
can't work out if this is true in the case of 'thiuda'.  If it is I suppose
my hypothetical P Gmc word would be '*Theudaiworda'.

Tim O'Neill

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