[gothic-l] Re: is Gothic the language of one or a few men?

[edmundfairfax@yahoo.ca [gothic-l]]

 Examples of "Gothic" names with monothongization of /ai/:
 

 Gesila = *Gaisila, Ostrogoth mentioned in Cassiodorus
 Gesimundus = *Gaisamunds, Ostrogoth mentioned in Jordanes
 Gesalecus = *Gaisalaiks, Visigoth, mentioned in Cassiodorus
 

 versus:
 

 Gaina = *Gaina, Goth mentioned in Zosimos
 

 A further example of possible dialectal variation with regard to /ai/ is:
 

 runic HAILAG, from the Pietroassa ring inscription, where clearly a diphthong [ai] is indicated, versus the digraph <ai> of Wulfilian Gothic, which most scholars now believe, with good reason, to have been a monothong, to wit, open [e], either long or short in duration (see Braune / Heidermanns 2004, notes 20-23).
 

 Audamunds
 

 

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