[gothic-l] Totila etymology

[Marja Erwin marja-e@riseup.net [gothic-l]]

On Dec 20, 2014, at 4:48 AM, g.bigazzi at yahoo.it [gothic-l] <gothic-l at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> Hello, Totila (Baduila) was the last great king of the Ostrogoths in Italy, its name in the gothic language means "The immortal" in fact the etymology seems to me unclear: The root is Tot that surely means death plus the suffix -ila that I can't understand, can anybody help in debunking Baduila nickname?

-ila means little.

It’s common in Gothic names and nicknames.

If he came from an area, such as Bavaria, affected by the High German sound shift then Totila might mean "little death."

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