[gothic-l] Re: Pronounciation

[ravichaudhary2000]

--- In gothic-l at y..., "faltin2001" <dirk at s...> wrote:
>
>
> One point perhaps, on coins, so-called Antonianiae and Aurei of
> emperor Tacitus (not to be confused with the historian) the name of
> the Goths is spelled 'VICTORIAE COTTHI'. I have two of these
> Antoniniae with full silver-wash, i.e. in the highest possible
> condition, yet the name of the Goths is definitely spelled with
> a 'C'. It could of course mean that this was a fashion of the time,
> yet on coins of Claudius II, Quintillius and Aurelianus the name of
> the Goths is spelled with a clear and unmistakeable 'G',
> i.e. 'VICTORIAE GOTHIC'. At any rate, is it possible that the
writing
> of the name Goths with 'C' and 'TT' reflected some sort of
> pronounciation at the time?
>
> Dirk


Is this an isolated example ?

 and

how do you go from Cotti to Goth or viceversa ?

This may be unrelated, but

The classical greeks, wrote of SandraCott-us, and also SasiCott-us,
these are identified , mostly, with indian names - ChandraGupta and
SasiGupta., which appear to sanskritized versions of Chandra-gut.

Thus Gupta( the G as in Greek)  is also derived in eralier times from
Gut,( G as in German ), though Gut which also means a 'group'( G as
in Greek). also exists.

I could not help note the similarity

Input appreciated

Ravi





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