[gothic-l] Re: Name origin and meaning

[sverre_johnsen at HOTMAIL.COM]

> You're right about the word "bill", Sverre!  Words ending in double
"ll" were 
> "lr" in Old Norse,

No. -lr after a long vowel was impossible in Old Norse, it became
-ll. But "bíll" is without doubt a word that didn't exist in Old
Norse. And in moderne Icelandic, the nominative masculinum ending is
-ur, not -r, so I don't understand where the double l comes from.

> and "lR" in Indogermanic,

-lR existed only in the phase between "Primitive Nordic" (Urnordisch)
and Old Norse, after the vowel has been syncoped, and before -lR
became -ll. R itself is a sound that existed only in Northern and
Western Germanic. In Indogermanic, it was "s".

Sverre


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