[gothic-l] Ansis

[faltin2001]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Francisc Czobor" <fericzobor at y...>
wrote:
> You're right, Dirk. I just quoted from memory.
> In fact, Jordanes wrote "And because of the great victory they had
> won in this region, they thereafter called their leaders, by whose
> good fortune they seemed to have conquered, not mere men, but
> demigods, that is Ansis" (Getica XIII, 78, Charles C. Mierow's
> translation; in the origina Latin text: "... magnaque potiti per
loca
> victoria iam proceres suos, quorum quasi fortuna vincebant, non
puros
> homines, sed semideos id est Ansis vocaverunt...").
>
> Francisc




Hi Francisc,

do you know anything about the linguistics behind these terms? Why
was the word 'Ans-' in Gothic and West Germanic, but 'As' in North
Germanic? Is this loss of 'n' a regular occurance?

Thanks
Dirk






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