Name of the Goths

[faltin2001]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Ingemar Nordgren" <ingemar at ...> 
wrote:
>
> 
> Hi Dirk,
> 
> Could you demonstrate a big flowing stream that explains the island
> name of Gutland/Gotland or Eastern Gautland?



Hi Ingemar,

there is also no 'big flowing stream' at Gutinge (Göttingen) or villa 
Gotaha (Gotha). Apparently, all that is neede is 'a flowing water'. 
In fact, the modern German word Gosse refers to a small stream of 
water, but I think that Old Saxon Guta and Eastfalian Göte refers 
only to flowing water. 

My question to you is what evidence is there that the root of the 
name Goths, i.e. *geutan has to refer to the flowing of semen, rather 
than the flowing of water?

Cheers,

Dirk










> 
> Best
> Ingemar
> 
> 
> > > > Thus, the place name Gutinge (Göttingen) refers to ' the 
place of
> > > the people at the stream of water'. In fact, some sources even 
refer
> > > to a Saxon 'sub-tribe' as the Gudinge from the same area. The 
name 
> > of
> > > the Goths has clearly the same linguistic roots and it may have 
had 
> > > the same development, only that usually the more sophisticated 
> > > interpretation of 'giessen', i.e. to pour or flow is employed 
to 
> > > arrive at  the meaning of 'the once who were created by the 
flow of 
> > > semen from a god'.
>







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