R: [gothic-l] Anagastes?

[Giuseppe Pagliarulo]

Matthaius melida:

<<This is Anagastus or Anagastes, Schoenfeld gives Anagasts, but
according to
Koebler it is probably "ungermanisch" i.e. ungermanic. If Gmc. it
could
conceivably be Anagasts, i.e. High-Spirit or Frenzy?>>

Warning! we have a German-Gothic false friend here. Remember that a
Gothic *gaists should probably mean "terror" or "frenzy", not
"spirit". So if we take it to be from *Anagaists it may mean
"over-terror" or something like that--or maybe it's from *Hanagaists
"the terror of chickens", who knows :)

Iosef Strawarila
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