Name of the Goths

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Hi everybody,
ualarauans, Thank you for the analysis. It is even more doubtful for 
the Romans to set such an inscription (Dacia Porolissensis and 
stuff).
 --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans at ...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Francisc Czobor" <fericzobor@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > However, there was an Eastern Germanic tribe named Victoali (or
> > Victofali, Victophali, Victobali), mentioned in connection with 
> other
> > Eastern Germanic tribes like Taifali, Thervingi, by authors like
> > Eutropius (Breviarium ab urbe condita, Book VIII) and Paulus 
> Diaconus
> > (Historia Romana, Book VII). Victovaloke looks just like a 
strange
> > alteration of Victo(f)ali...
> 
> The names Uictouali and Taifali (< Taiuali?) seem Celtic, and 
these 
> tribes might have been rather East-Celtic (relative to Boii) and 
> thus Celtic-speaking, getting allied with the Goths and finally 
(but 
> when?) Germanized? Gaulish *victo-val- means "battle-strong" and 
is 
> more or less etymologically equal to ON personal name Vigvaldr 
(with 
> a reverse IE –t-suffix distribution). The Goths could have adopted 
> the name as *Waihtawalos or even *Waihtiwalhos, pursuing 
essentially 
> the same object - to give the strange name some sense in their 
> language.
> 
> It seems difficult to imagine a Germanic-speaking tribe keeping a 
> Celtic name in its Celtic form...
> 
> Ualarauans
>







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