[gothic-l] Re: Goths, Gepids, Gaut

[Francisc Czobor]

--- In gothic-l at y..., cstrohmier at y... wrote:
 
> ...
> 	On page 86 under the discussion on Tyr, it says:  "A 
> distinctive feature of the worship of this god among the Franks and 
> some other Northern nations was that priests called Druids or Godi 
> offered up human sacrifices upon his altars...."  (I wonder if
> this might suggest that originally there was some connection among 
> the word Godi, the Gothic words "Gut" (Goth) and
> "gudja" (priest), and Frau Gode.)
> ...

gudja "priest" is derived rather from guÞ "God" (the alternance Þ/d is 
frequent in Gothic, as well as in other old Germanic languages, 
depending on the accent position in Common Germanic according to 
Werner's law, but there is no t/d alternance in Gothic). Also from the 
semantic point of view, the derivation "priest" < "God" is more 
probable than "priest" < "Goth".

Francisc




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