[gothic-l] Re: '*Thiudawordaz'/'*Thiudaiworda'?(crosspost)

[Brian Beck]

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, Tim O'Neill <scatha at b...> wrote:
> Tim O'Neill wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > My problem is the name.  At this stage the site is called
> > '*Thiudawordaz' which was my guess at Primitive Germanic
for 'People
> > Words'.  But I think the meaning I was really after was
more 'Words
> > of the People/Tribe', which I'm guessing would be something like
> > '*Thiudaiworda'.
> >
> > Can any linguists help me with this?
>
> Hmmm, no responses.  Seriously folks, any help on this will be
> greatly appreciated.  I can't finish the site until I get its title
> right and I'd hate for Germanic-L's site to have a name that's
> liguistically creaky.
>
> Is it 'Thiudaiworda' or have I got it totally wrong?
> Many thanks in advance for anyone who can help me.
> Cheers,
>
> Tim O'Neill
Tim,
   The Gothic would be 'Thiudawaurda', but Proto-germanic would (I
think) be something like '*Theudowurdo'(neuter plural), with both d's
pronounced as dental fricatives.  Perhaps some of our more
knowledgeable members could confirm or refute this.
Sijais Hails,
  Brian



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