[gothic-l] Re: Attila

[Anthony Appleyard]

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  Tim O'Neill <scatha at bigpond.com> wote:-
> Attila had many Germanics at his court and most of the
> Huns' subject tribes were Germanic or Iranian.  Some
> Huns had Germanic names as well (like 'Attila', though
> this *may* be a compound of a Turkic name with a Gothic
> ending), but the people who formed the core of 'the
> Huns' were probaly Turko-Mongolian.

{ata} is Turkish for "father".


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