Getica 129-130

[llama_nom]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans at ...> wrote:
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> Sonahildja [...] Sar (Sarws) jah Ama (Hamaþius) 

Here are some notes on names that I made a while ago with tentative
reconstructions of full-names and various hypocoristic shortenings.
Unfortunately I didn't include references, but I *think* the
suggestion that initial /h/ was lost in the second elements of
compounds, along with the joining-vowel, came from a paper by Bennett.
I could be mistaken about that though. The details about the name
recorded in German charters comes from R. W. Chambers, Widsith: A
Study in Old English Heroic Tradition (Cambridge, 1912).

*Sunjahildi, fjo. Jord. Sunilda; as Suanailt with other names from
Ermenric story in Charter from Germany, 786; names used in Germany:
Sonhild, Swanhild; OIc. Svanhildr, due to borrowing from a German
source with ua < û?; compare Go. Sunjaifriþas; Go. names in Lat.
Sunie-, very common; Go. sunja `truth'; for loss of -a- in short
ja-stems as first element of compound names, cf. Agiulfus; and perhaps
also with loss of /h/ in second element of compound, cf. Go. gudhus,
freijhals, faurhah (=faurahah), manaulja (for *mana-hulja?), and the
name *Neiþada (for *Neiþa-haidus?, cf. OIc. Níðuðr, gen. Níðaðar; OE
Nîþhâd).

*Sarus, *Sarila, *Sarula, man. Jord. Sarus; Wz. Sarilo; OIc. Sörli;
Lat. Sarus, a Gothic warlord; Go. sarwa, na.pl. `armour'.

*Hamaþius, mwa., *Hamiþeis, mja., *Hamiþa, man., *Hamjis, mja. Jord.
Ammius; Wz. Hamido; OIc. Hamðir; Go. ga-hamon `put on, dress oneself
in'; OIc. hamr (gen. -s, pl. -ir) `skin, outward shape', OE homa, OHG
hamo `skin, clothes', OHG hemidi `clothing, long undershirt', OFries.
hemethe, OE hemeþ.

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