[gothic-l] Is my name Gothic?

[macmaster at RISEUP.NET]

hi Doug,
It seems to me very unlikely that it would be Gothic; Alsace was briefly
under the rule of the Burgundians (an East Germanic people like the Goths)
but they were driven out by the Huns after less than a generation and the
area was settled by Alemanns, Suebes, and Franks (all West German tribes).
 The Goths were never up in that area.  I'd guess that your name would be
more likely a cognate from one of the other Germanic languages, rather
than Gothic.

Also, I am fairly certain that it can be said that no Gothic surnames have
survived to present.

Tom MacMaster

Douglas Sunlin said:
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>  Hello, my family name is Sunlin. Rumor is that we come from Alsace.
>  One day I decided to look in a Gothic dictionary for the parts of the
>  name, and lo, "sun" had an entry and so did "lin".
> Does that make it a
>  Gothic name? How could it have remained unchanged over these centuries?
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