Name of the Goths

[Francisc Czobor]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "dciurchea" <dciurchea at ...> wrote:
>
> This is a nice interpretation. By using a Thracian connection (as 
> reflected in today's Romanian) the significance of the name of the 
> Gets is included in the expression "get-beget" which means of clear 
> origin (Example: one may be "get-beget" German i.e. 100%, or both 
> parents were germans and so). One must note one more very 'gothic' 
> custom of Romanians, as fair descendants of Gets(Thracians): the 
> preocupation for the ancestry, reflected in such words with the indo-
> european root 'moshe':
> ...
> 

I saw also elsewhere this interpretation of the expression "get-beget" 
and was tempted to admit it, but the current opinion is that it is of 
Turkish origin: "cet-beced" or "çet-be-çet".

Francisc





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