Gothic names
Michal Cigan
michalcigan at YAHOO.COM
Wed Aug 23 11:49:09 UTC 2006
Zdarvim Ualarauans,
Thanx for your answer, excellent as always...
But I have another, maybe linguistic, puzzle:
1) I herad, that a german (maybe archaic, i dont know exactly) word for Tuesday, parallel to Dienstag, is also "ertag", "eritag", or "erchtag". And from this results (not to me, but to czech-german prof. Karbusicky), that "er", or "erch" is another name form protogerman sky god, for example Tyr - in modern nordic form. What's your opinion?
M.
ualarauans <ualarauans at yahoo.com> wrote: Hi Michal
--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Michal Cigan michalcigan at ... wrote:
>
> thing is little bit more difficult.
> Slavomar is really archaic, we can say "Czech-Slovak form", even
though in
> modern language it is used modern common slavic -mir (Slavomir).
But Jaromar is
> from norh Germany, Rugen, Arkona..., (even I have no information
about its
> existence in another slavic regions)
> But maybe Burgundian influence could be the solutions, especially
in the "Great
> Moravian" case of Slavomar.
For the ex-DDR territory being a Slavo-Germanic contact area
throughout the early Middle Age I'd suggest that hybrid names could
be composed to find recognition both with German and Wendish
speaking people. So, Jaromar could contain Slavic jaro- (Czech jaro,
Slovak jar "spring"; actually, the same IE word is Go. jer "year"),
which, if needed, could be interpreted as OHG ja:r "Jahr" (however,
I'm not aware of Germanic names with this element) and German -mar
(sounding very much like -mir which the Slavs had already adopted).
That is, this name was neither purely Slavic nor purely German, but
a kind of linguistic compromise between the two.
Slavomar may have been influenced by (or a partly translation of)
OHG Hluodmar, meaning the same, i.e. "known by [his] glory", both
Slavic _slava_ and OHG _hluod_ from PIE *kleu- "to hear".
On Germanic-L there's an interesting discussion around the Warnians
and their king Radegis whose name = either Go. *Radagais or later
Wendish Radegast. In fact, it could be both, I think. Being
originally Germanic, the name could later be Slavicized (as well as
the ethnonym of Warnians itself). What of its first element, I'd
rather disagree with Dirk that
> [T]he slavic name Radegast has nothing to do with Germanic
Radagais or
> Radachis. Slavic 'rada' means 'joy', while Germanic 'rada' refers
> to 'council [...]
and that
> [I]t is exactly the same name as that of the famous Gothic leader
> Radagais, who died 406.
cause in this case it should be Go. *Redagais, not *Radagais
(Olympiodorus writes RODOGAISOS).
> This is just a coincidental name similarity. What is,
> however, clear is that the 'Rada-' component was very popular in
the
> Thuringian dynasty (Radegunde, Radegunde, Radagais, Radulf)
Maybe it became popular also because it was understandable to
Wendish speaking subjects/neighbors of the Thuringian kingdom?
Ualarauans
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