Further Thoughts On "Goth-" :: another similar name

[anthony.appleyard@umist.ac.uk]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:59:59 -0600, David L. White <dlwhite at texas.net>
wrote:

>  The word is sometimes connected with a word meaning 'flood' or
>something of that sort (sometimes given as 'pour').  It occurs to me that
>from an original /gout/ (ancestral to Germanic /gaut/), ...

Another Germanic tribe name with a somewhat similar possible origin is
"Angle", "English" from IE root {ang} = "narrow", because they lived around
the "Narrow Water", i.e. the Schlei estoary.