R: [gothic-l] Anagastes?

[MCLSSAA2 at FS2.MT.UMIST.AC.UK]

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, dirk at s... wrote:
> I really haven't got a clou about Gothic, but I thought the name
part
> **gast** as in Germanic names like Arbogast, Leugast etc. means
> friend, guest (modern German 'Gast').

The element {gast} or similar can occur also in Slavic names, e.g.
{Radagast} or {Radihost} = "land-guest": Russian {gost'} = "guest";
after the Dark Ages migrations, eastern Germany up to the recent Iron
Curtain was inhabited largely by Slavs, as many placenames show.
     By -witz and -nitz and -ow and -in
     you know that Slavs once lived therein.
But the Gallehus Horn inscription "Hlewagastiz Holtijaz horna tawido"
is a proven example of {gast} and not {gaist} in a Common Germanic
personal name.


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