[gothic-l] Name of the Semnones"

[jdm314 at AOL.COM]

For the Swedes, look at some of David Salos old posts in the archive where he
comes up with names for the various countries of the Modern World through
diverse means. He reconstructed a Gothic form for that word then.

In a message dated 11/4/00 10:16:28 PM, you wrote:

<<I'm also latiniacally challenged, but the -ones ending sames to be the
entire Latinate inflection, correct?  Would that make the stem Semn- or
Semn(j)/(w) (+ inflection)?>>

I don't know what you mean the "entire Latinate inflection" but I'm guessing
your question is whether or not the -ones is significant. I'd say it is.
Compare Tacitus' Gutones and Gothic *Gutans... generally Latin -ones should
equate to a "weak" ending... so like *Simnans or something odd like that.

-JDM

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