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

[Francisc Czobor]

Hi Keth,

Now I try for the third time to replay your message of yesterday.

--- In gothic-l at y..., keth at o... wrote:
> 

> There is an interesting passage in Paulus Diaconus, where he
> tells about the Langobards' old god Wotan. The interesting
> thing is that the name is not written as "Wodan", there, but
> rather as "Godan". Perhaps there is a relationship to the question
> that is asked here ?   I though't I'd mention this, since it
> seems to fit well together with the question that is asked.
> 

I think that "Godan" is probably a contamination (possibly due to 
Paulus Diaconus himself) between "God" (meaning God, Germ. Gott) and 
"Wodan". Such a contamination is palusible, since God and Wodan are 
semantically related.
As far as I know, Langobardic underwent the second Germanic consonant 
shift, but in different conditions as High German. In this case, if 
[d] is preserved in Wodan (OHG Wotan), then it could be preserved also 
in God (Germ. Gott).

Francisc



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