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

[Tim O'Neill]

Brian Beck wrote:
>
> --- 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.


> 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.

Thanks Brian.  Reading a bit more of Wright's section on phonology
(section 114) I'd just worked out the '-o' ending for the strong
neuter plural.  But I'm wondering about '*wurdo' for 'words', since
Wright says the Primitive Germanic form would have been 'wordo'
(section 181)

So does this mean my word is '*Theudowordo'?

Tim O'Neill

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