[gothic-l] Re: kusanata (Jordanes in Gothic)

faltin2001 dirk at SMRA.CO.UK
Fri Feb 25 12:27:40 UTC 2005


--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell at o...> wrote:
> 
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "faltin2001" <dirk at s...> wrote:
> 
> > However, I thought that Jordanes' Oium is linked with modern 
> German 
> > Heim, i.e. home. 
> 
> 
> Hi Dirk,
> 
> Maybe, but I gather Latin writers usually render Gothic <ai> in 
> personal names as <ai> or <ei>, or sometimes <e> (Dagalaiphus, 
> Gaina, Radagaisus, Vajasindus; Gisaleicus; Gesila, Gesimundus; 
> also 'eils' in De Conviviis Barbaris).
> 
> But <auj> tends to appear as <oi> in Latin, e.g. names beginning 
> Froi-, Froj- = Go. Frauj-.
> 
> Examples from Braune/Helm "Gotische Grammatik", and Koebler's 
Anhang 
> 3 Wörterbuch der gotischen Namen:
> 
> http://www.koeblergerhard.de/gotwbhin.html
> 
> Llama Nom



Hi Llama Nom,

that is interesting. I only cited the supposed link with m.Germ. 
Heim, because it is mentioned in H. Wolfram's book (I think). 

Cheers
Dirk














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