En réponse à Andreas Johansson :
>My Duden doesn't recognize the word at all, but a quick search with google.de
>seems to indicate that the forms _Visigote_ and _Wisigote_ are about equally
>common (both almost always pl _V-/Wisigoten_). Searching for "wisigoth" gives
>mostly French hits even when I tell Google to only search German pages.
>
>So the short answer is "no". But why should the French have nicked the German
>form anyway?
Because it refers to a German tribe :)) . At least, I've learned that this
term was a borrowing, not a native word.
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.