[gothic-l] Re: America - Almarich (missunderstanding)

[Francisc Czobor]

Hy Sunny,

I'm very sorry about a missunderstanding of mine.
I firstly understood from your message that you stated that Amerigo 
Vespucci lived in the 12th century. Reading again your message, I 
understand now that you said in fact that the name "Amerigo" appeared 
for the first time in Italian in the 12th century.

Francisc

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Francisc Czobor" <fericzobor at y...> 
wrote:
> Hy, Sunny,
> 
> I knew the fact that the name "America", first used in 1507 by the 
> German cosmographer Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1522) is derived 
from 
> the name of the Italian navigator and explorer Amerigo Vespucci 
> (latinised: Americus Vespucius), who lived between 1454-1512 (and 
not 
> in the 12th century, as you state), and that the name Amerigo is of 
> Germanic (not necessarily Gothic) origin. It is possible that it 
> ultimately derives from Amalrich (which is obviously a Gothic name, 
> attested in the 6th century as Amalaricus, cf. Köbler's "Gotisches 
> Wörterbuch", 1989; in Wulfilan Gothic it woud be *Amala-reiks). But 
I 
> knew that Amerigo is in fact a variant of the Italian name Emerico, 
> wich is also of Germanic origin, but related rather to the German 
> name "Heinrich".
> There is also another hypothesis, that "America" could be derived 
> from "Amerrique" (probably from a Native American language), the 
name 
> of a mountain range in Nicaragua, used by early explorers for the 
> newly discovered land (cf. Webster's New World College Dictionary, 
> 1994).
> 
> Francisc
> 
> 
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "sunnytjatsingh" 
> <sunnytjatsingh at y...> wrote:
> > Hi Francisc, 
> > 
> > "Ghaddafi, trying to demonstrate the superiority of the Arab 
> culture, 
> > among other arguments, derived the name "America" from a certain 
> Arab 
> > called "Emir Kah"! This is not far from Jat=Get=Goth."
> > 
> > Let's examine a fun-fact suggested by Kephart who claims that the 
> > Goths were PARTLY responsible for the name of America?
> > 
> > The name Amerigo showed up in Italian around the 12th Century and 
> was 
> > introduced by the Goths in the 6th century – Amal.  Hence, the 
> > etymology
. Amalrich "work ruler" [German] – Amerigo [Italian] – 
> > America.    Therefore, it may be possible that America was named 
> > after Vespucci, an Italian, with a Gothic name?   
> > 
> > For a detailed explanation behind this name see Calvin Kephart.  
> > Regards,


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