logic error: Gapt [gothic-l]

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Hails!

>I have never seen any mentionings of an original Greek Getica.
>In fact, Andreas Nordin (1997, page 22) writes: "Hur som hälst
>er Jordanes en god representant for vulgärlatinet." He also has
>several other remarks to the same effect, and nowhere do I see
>Greek menitioned in connection witth his work. Do you mean that
>upsilon can be mistaken for pi? It is however only Wulfila's "u"
>that is closed at the top. The upsilon is open at the top, and
>therefore is not similar to "pi".


Good point.  But I still don't think we can rule out Grimm's idea
(regardless of what his motives and methods may or may not have been) that
Gaut could have been a _corruption_ rather than an actual incorrectly
written letter, or scribal error: Given the connection between u and v,
then v, f, and p, if Gaut was somewhere written "Gavt," it could have very
easily been mistaken by an unknowing writer as Gaft, or Gapt.  This
speculative explanation seems just as probable, or perhaps a bit more
probable, than assuming Gapt to be connected with Giban or Gibika.

Albareiks (a different person from Anthanareiks)


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