Etymology of "Alavivus?"

[Lombard]

M. Schönfeld "Wörterbuch der altgermanischen Personen- und Völkernamen", Heidelberg 1965:

 

".Ala-vivus = an. Olvir, ahd. as. Alawich; zum zweiten Glied vgl. urnord. WiwaR, ahd. Vio-mad, Vio-rad, Wiu-frid, ags. -wio, -wiu (z. B. Forthwio).

 

Wenn diese Gleichungen richtig sind, so ist -vivus aus germ. *-wigwó- aus *-wihwó- 'Streit'" entstanden, wozu got. weihan 'streiten' gehört."

 

Manie 

 

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Francisc Czobor" <fericzobor at ...> wrote:

> 

> Koebler (in "Anhang 3: Gotische Namen") derives Alavivus from weihan. 

> I understand this that the name is composed of ala- "all" + a 

> derivation of weihan (I suppose it's weihan, strong verb, "to battle, 

> combat, dispute", and not weihan*, weak verb, "hallow, sanctify"). 

> The Gothic form could be *Ala-weihs or *Ala-weigs, but I can't 

> understand how the second "v" of "Alavivus" appeared.

> Alatheus, on the other hand, is explained as Alathius (ala- "all" + 

> þius "thrall, servant").

> 

> Francisc

> 

> 

> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Michael Erwin <merwin@> wrote:

> >

> > Can anybody reconstruct the name Latinized as "Alavivus?"

> > 

> > I was thinking it could be a corruption of the name Latinized as  

> > "Alatheus," e.g. if he had added a Gothic signature to a Latin or  

> > Greek diplomatic letter, and the þ was hard to read, and/or the  

> > readers didn't know any Gothic.

> >

> 


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