[gothic-l] Eruli: The IE Etymology, VIII

[Bertil Haggman]

"3) The fact that jarl and eorl refer to the political
military sphere.

4) The particularly warlike nature of the Eruli as described
by Migration Period historians.

The 'man' etymology was argued as follows:

1) OS erl 'man, person' preserves an original, neutral
semantic basis underlying also the rank designations
jarl and eorl. This must be correct, as most recently
Ebbinghaus has emphasized. Adherents of the 'war'
etymology had tended to argue the opposite: 'Old Saxon
erlos means 'men, people', originally 'warriors,
heroes'. And even Bugge, who did see the *er-l- words
as diminutives of a root *er-, 'man', still could
not resist infusing the semantic element 'war' into them: 'The
word jarl, stem erila- and erla-, contains a diminutive suffix
and means etymologically 'a young man', 'a young male
warrior'."

Erulically

Bertil


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