Gothic names

Tue Jul 25 15:04:31 UTC 2006

Thanx, both answers are useful for me...

By the way, its truth, that slavic ending -mir vas probably derived from gothic pattern - also with its introduced etymological solution - but what about its another, paralel form: -mar (Slavomar, Jaromar) - any idea?

M.

ualarauans <ualarauans at yahoo.com> wrote:                                  Hails Daweid!

 --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, David Kiltz <derdron at ...> wrote:
 >
 > On 22.07.2006, at 12:53, ualarauans wrote:
 > 
 > > I don't think these endings are specifically Gothic as they are
 > > attested everywhere else in Germania
 > 
 > -mï¿½r can, as far as the vowel (ï¿½) is concerned, be regarded as  
 > typically Gothic. In North and West Germanic, Proto-Germanic ï¿½1 (e- 
 > one) > ï¿½ (but OE ï¿½/ae) vs. Gothic > ï¿½. This, I think, is a useful  
 > feature to distinguish Gothic from other Germanic names (e.g. in  
 > Spanish names on _-mir/mil_ etc.).
 > 
 > Also, Gothic names should have -ric, not -rich (_ch_ = back-spirant  
 > [x], later [ï¿½]), as the latter is High German.
 > 
 > David
 >

 Yes, certainly I forgot to add "in the corresponding phonetic form". I 
 thought Michal was meaning these endings as etymological entities 
 irrespective of how they appear in each particular language, e.g. Go. ï¿½
 reiks, OE ï¿½ric, ON ï¿½rekr, OHG -rih etc. Thanks for your comment. BTW, 
 I used to wonder why does Jordanes write Geberich not *Geberic (< Go. 
 *Gibareiks, "Balthane Baur sa Batista")?

 Ualarauans

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