[gothic-l] Re: Totila etymology

Sat Dec 20 19:43:44 UTC 2014

So it is linguistically possible that the Goths were a germanized celtic tribe ... in gothic there are a few celtic words like marhs for horse 

     Il Sabato 20 Dicembre 2014 20:29, "edmundfairfax at yahoo.ca [gothic-l]" <gothic-l at yahoogroups.com> ha scritto:

     The Celtic proto-form that Germanic adopted was apparently a consonant-stem rather than o-stem noun, thus Celtic *riks (gen. sg. *-rigi, etc.) rather than *rigos. Gothic 'reiks' is a consonant-stem, as is the Gaulish counterpart, hence the Latinized forms in -rix rather than -ricus in such Gaulish names as 'Ainorix, Biturix, Uercingetorix,' etc. (see Xavier Delamarre's >Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise<, 2003, pp. 259-260). In his >Handbook of Germanic Etymology< (2003, p. 305), Orel also reconstructs a consonant-stem.
The later Latinized Germanic names ending in -ricus likely reflect a shift in nominal class, from the consonant-stem group, which was a dying/dead class, to the productive a-stem class.
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