Etymology of "Alavivus?"

[Lombard]

According to Gottfried Schramm ("Namenschatz und Dichtersprache; Studien zu den zweigliedrigen Personennamen der Germanen", Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1957) it developed from -*wîwaz ( -*wîgwaz) bzw. *-wiuz (which gives us *Alaweiws and *Alawius). -*wîwaz ( -*wîgwaz) seems rather logical, but the form *-wiuz?

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  > > ".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."

  So would we have in "Biblical" Gothic *Alawius (cf. siuns < segwnís),
  genitive *Alawiwis, or is that a long vowel: *Alaweiws?



   

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