Gothic woman

[ualarauans]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Abdoer-Ragmaan Lombard" 
<manielombard at ...> wrote:
>
> And what about mu-stems (I mean old names here)?
> 
> Arab: "*Arabus", Arab woman "*Arabus" (fu-stem; or "*Arabini", fjo-
> stem, "*Arabo", fn-stem?)

Could it also be *Arabuni F.-jo? I mean the case that the suffix 
takes the form –uni after u-stems, like in ON ásynja F.-jon, derived 
from áss M.-u. Go. *ansuni F.-jo (*ansus M.-u)?

> > I've got an idea than maybe for modern ethnonyms we could use the
> > derived –isk- form, to distinguish them from the old tribal 
names,
> > and in accord with historical development here. E.g. the Franks 
are
> > Fragkans, but the French are Fragkiskans (sg. masc. Fragkiska, 
fem.
> > Fragkisko) – cf. Fr. Francais < Mlat. Franciscus < Frank. 
Frankisk.
> > The same with Danes (Daneis and Daniskans, Modern 
Danish "Dansker"),
> > and maybe with British (Britiskans)?

I wonder is this process (forming ethnonyms with the –isk-suffix) 
somehow connected with the appearance of the substantivized 
adjective manniska- in the sense of "human being" in continental 
Germanic – cf. NHG Mensch, Dutch mens, Danish menneske etc.?

Ualarauans

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