[gothic-l] Gothic names

Dicentis a roellingua@gmail.com [gothic-l] gothic-l at yahoogroups.com
Thu Jan 29 01:04:48 UTC 2015


You can also call me "hroþa", "hroþo" or "hroþaland".

Roel

2015-01-29 2:03 GMT+01:00 Dicentis a <roellingua at gmail.com>:

> As a lot of people which are interested in Gothic want to know their name
> in Gothic, I decided to make this list so that people can easily look up
> the Gothic equivalent of their names, be it attested in the Bible as that
> or reconstructed. I still have to add your name.
>
> 2015-01-29 2:00 GMT+01:00 Dicentis a <roellingua at gmail.com>:
>
>> Lol what a coincidence! Before I opened my mail, I compiled a list with
>> both Biblical attested names and reconstructed names!
>>
>> Check my attachment.
>>
>> 2015-01-29 0:54 GMT+01:00 write2andy at yahoo.com [gothic-l] <
>> gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I was coming up with a list of names in Gothic (meaning attested names
>>> and the Gothic counterparts to other names) a while back, and I thought we
>>> should discuss names here. Lots can be pulled from the Bible (Teimaúþaíus,
>>> Andraías, Marja, etc.), and, since so many common names in the western
>>> world are either Biblical or Germanic, we have a relatively easy time of
>>> making the Gothic counterparts.
>>>
>>> Here is a site I found, which has some names up to "F":
>>> http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/etc/in_progress/data/b0363.html
>>>
>>> Many dictionaries may also have a separate section for names and other
>>> proper nouns.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>
>>
>
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