[gothic-l] Re: kusanata (Jordanes in Gothic)

[llama_nom]

Hi Vladimir,

That's interesting.  The nominative singular of Gothic *aujom
(dat.pl.) would be *auja (feminine jo-stem).  The actualy form in
Jordanes is Oium/Ojum.  Germanic cognates include:

OIc. ey
OFris. ey
Langobardic *auja
OE ieg (survives in MnE island, with spelling influenced by the
unrelated French isle)

Under island the Oxford English dictionary comments: "1. a. A piece
of land completely surrounded by water.  Formerly used less
definitely, including a peninsula, or a place insulated at high
water or during floods, or begirt by marshes, a usage which survives
in particular instances..." (e.g. certain place names.)

(And related, German Au(e) < OHG ouwa.)

I'm completely ignorant of the history of Finnish, so I don't know
if changes in Finnish alone can account for the form given, but in
Germanic this word would be *aujo > Proto Norse *auju.

Llama Nom





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> If <Aujom> is treated as the dative, what could be the nominative?
> Accordingly, may be considered, in your opinion,
> Finnish <oja> "ditch, drain" as a possible origin
> of this mysterious toponym?
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> "ana Aujom" I treated it like names where the preposition and
dative
> are conventionally fixed as part of the name, as sometimes happens
> in OE and ON, since the Latin form seems to have taken over the
> dative ending from Gothic.
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