[gothic-l] Re: Gothic and Old Bavarian

[Francisc Czobor]

Hi Keth and Dirk,

--- In gothic-l at y..., dirk at s... wrote:
>  Yes, I was looking for examples of such things occurring in PN's
> > but all I found thus far was k --> ch.
> > Diederik (Dirk) is also funny, since it exhibits Th --> D,
> > but it isn't High German, but rather a typical Low German
> > name . (The early counts of Holland and Zeeland)

Indeed, Low German did not underwent the second consonant shift, but 
it has the shift þ, ð > d, like in High German (e.g. Dutch duizent 
"thousand", der, die "the", zuid "south", Nederland "Netherlands" 
etc.)

> 
> Hi Keth,
> 
> I disagree, Diederik (Dirk) is not at all funny... just kidding:) 
You 
> are of course right, Dirk and Diederik are Low German forms of 
> Dietrich, Thietrich, and ultimately Theoderic. A Rhenish form of the 
> name has cut off the '-ric' and developed into the form Thilo!

Other forms of Theoderic are: Thierry (French), Derrick (English)

Francisc


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