NE Germanic

[Stanley Friesen]

At 03:36 PM 1/22/00 -0500, Steve Gustafson wrote:
>So, I don't think you can say that the presence vs. absence of reduplication
>is something that distinguishes Gothic from NWGmc.  It's rather that we have
>Gothic texts before this inherited distinction got hammered.

>From a different direction, the most believable derivations of the *name*
"Goth" link it with "Gotaland" in Sweden and/or the island "Gotland".

This suggests a northern origin for the tribe.

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