Child name of Theodoric?

[Francisc Czobor]

-mir in Theodemir is *mers (*mereis, *meris) which means "famed, 
reputed" (Koebler)

Francisc

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Lars Larsen" <lars.larsen at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>  
> Did history provide us with the child name, so to speak, of 
Theodoric, king
> of the OstroGoths ?
>  
> I mean it cannot have been Theodoric ?
> Theodoric, must come from gothic Thiudareik, also I guess his father
> Theodemir,  was really Thiuda and mir, which I don't know the 
meaning of,
> maybe it is the same as -mar? (meaning famous, at least in old 
norse)
>  
> Best
> Lars
>  
> 
> 
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