[gothic-l] Re: Gothic font (Burgos)

[Francisc Czobor]

Dear Fernando,

I'm affraid that I'm not the authority to elucidate this issue; I 
have to remind that I'm only an amateur in linguistics.
>From my point of view, "Burgos" seems to be rather Suebic than Gothic.
If of Germanic origin, then it is cognate with the terms related to 
German Burg "castle".
In Gothic the equivalent is baúrgs (pronounced [borgs]), whereas in 
Suebic (a West-Germanic language) it should be something similar to 
Old High German (OHG) burg. Spanish had not the tendency to shift 
short [o] > short [u], in the contrary, like all the western Romanic 
languages, it changed short [u] > short [o]. Thus, if the word would 
be Gothic, it should be Borg(-os).
Unclear for me is the ending -os. Apparently, it looks like a Gothic 
plural form (like wulfs, pl. wulfos, dags, pl. dagos, etc.), but this 
applies to thematic nouns, and Gothic baúrgs (like OHG burg) is a 
feminine athematic noun, having the nominative plural baúrgs
(identical with the singular). Maybe this ending comes from Spanish?
What is sure is that your first name comes from Gothic: Fridinandus 
(Latinized) < *Frithu-nanths.

Francisc


--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "F.E.J.D. IV" <visigoth at a...> wrote:
> ...
> Also, the name of the city of "Burgos" is said to be of Germanic
> origin, however, I am not sure whether it is Suebic or Gothic, 
perhaps
> Francisc can elucidate on this word?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> F.E.J.D



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