[gothic-l] Gaut/Gapt

[Bertil Häggman]

Francisc,

On a research expedition not related to Gothic
matters I visited Lund University Library and thought
I would check out the second edition of Hoops Reallexikon
(1998, Volume 10) on Gaut and found this very interesting
article (my compilation from German):

All manuscripts except one provide gapt. All other readings
concerning other Germanic royal genealogies (Gausus,
Geat) point to Gaut.

Old Greek au was early monophthongized (in German
monophthongiert). Especially in foreign words the writing au was not
practical. Instead before t "ap" was used - a rather questionable
escape as p in pt stands for approximately the same sound
as f. This mode of writing was copied in Latin texts and
could have been used in the chancellery of the Amals.

Gothically

Bertil


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