[gothic-l] Re: Gothic word for King

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--- In gothic-l at y..., "Francisc Czobor" <czobor at c...> wrote:
> Hi Keth,
> 
> --- In gothic-l at y..., keth at o... wrote:
> > ...
> > I was also interested in the source for the name "Halamardus".
> > This was said to be from some West Germanic inscription, but
> > I do not know which one. I find it interesting, because the first
> > part is clearly similar to the first part of "Halaricus". Also, we 
> know
> > the meaning of both -ricus and -mardus from other Germanic PN's.
> > ('mardus' is from "famous", related to German "Märchen", Dutch 
> "vermaard".)
> > Thus it seems established the Hala- is a first component in 
Germanic
> > PN's. I'd like to compare it with Old Norse "halr" that was a word 
> that
> > meant "man" or "hero".
> 
> I still believe that Alaricus is the correct form, and not, 
> "Halaricus", and that is in fact *Ala-reiks "all-ruler", with ala- 
for 
> "all" like in ala-mans "all men" (mankind, totality of humans) or 
> ala-brunsts "all-burning" (burnt-offering, holocaust) or ala-þarba 
> "all-needy" (very needy, very poor). In the mediaeval Latin texts, 
> when in Latin the "h" sound ceased actually to be pronounced, the 
"h" 
> letter sometimes is missing where it should be, sometimes appears 
> where it should not ("hypercorrect" forms). 
> 
> Francisc



I recall from the writings of ulfilas- the term Heliaruna (sp?) for 
witches. Later someone spelled it Allaruna- yet 2 different 
etymologies could be derived fro tne 2 different spellings of this  
word ('helia' meaning 'to hide' and 'alla' meaning 'all'). Obviously, 
this dropping of the initial 'h' could lead to great misunderstandings 
linguistically...

Jeff Burke


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