[gothic-l] Re: The Varus Film Project - West Germanic names

[Brian Beck]

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, "Le Bateman" <LeBateman at N...> wrote:
> Since many of the Germanic surnames are patramynic would it be
plausible to
> say that Erminus would have been called Ermanius Segestesen.
> Le
Using Tim's spelling, the patronymic would have been *Sigigastis-
sunus, except that I don't think -sunus would have been used in the
first century AD. It would more likely to have been *Sigigastingaz.
Surnames, as we know them, were of course not used among the German
tribes of this period.
Brian


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