Gepidae

[llama_nom]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Guenther Ramm <ualarauans at ...> 
wrote:

> The real crux about this name, I guess, is this –p- which is 
unanimously fixed
by Roman and Greek writers while the OE form presumes Gothic –b-. Be 
it *Gibidos
or *Gabideis – why > Gepides et sim.? And the form Gepedoios in 
Getica – doesn't
it speak in favor of Gothic –p-?


There a handful of Gothic names transcribed in Latin with 'p' where 
the proposed reconstruction has /f/.

Paria : *Farja
Pantardus : *Fant(a-h)ardus
Optila : *Uftila (cf. Ufita-hari in the Naples deed)
Optarit : *Ufta-reþs

More often Go. /f/ is transcribed as Lat. 'f' or 'ph'.  The latter 
was also used to transcribe Greek phi, which is supposed to have 
been a voiceless bilabial fricative at this time.  OE -f- could 
correspond to either Go. /f/ or /b/.





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