Los Reyes Godos (Was Visigothic identity of Spain)

[llama_nom]

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

> Gesaleico - 507-511 // Gaizalaiks (if so, why different reflexes of
the same diphthong?)

Hails, Waljahrabn!

If this is a genuinely old spelling, I guess it might be something to
do with the accent in Latin or Romance; that is, the second diphthong
might have been preserved because it was in a stressed syllable.  But
it would be interesting to know how early this spelling is recorded,
and why English sources use the variant Gesalic.

þuk golja,
Lama


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