Rosomil, Rosmunda, Rosamunda (and Rosomoni)

[llama_nom]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans at ...> wrote:
>
> What makes me rather incredulous towards Bugge's theory is that the
forms attested in the codices all have what seems to be a bindvowel
between ros- and –moni/-mani. He doesn't address this problem (the
OHG rosamo is, of course, irrelevant). 

Might this represent a vocalisation of the sonorant, or the
development of a svarabhakti vowel before a syllable-final sonorant as
happened in West Germanic. I'm thinking here of the name of the great
Ualarauans (*Walhahrabns) himself! Another example might be Odoacer
(*Audawakrs), unless that's just assimilation to the Latin ending -er.

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