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

[proto-language]

[ Moderator's note:
  I assume that the humour is unmarked.
  --rma ]

Dear Anthony and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "anthony.appleyard at umist.ac.uk" <anthony.appleyard at UMIST.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 10:15 AM

> 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.

Could this not simply be a professional nomenclature:

fishermen?

Pat

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