Re: CHAT: Visigoths (was: YADPT (D=Dutch))
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 12, 2003, 17:46 |
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At 20:07 11.11.2003, Ray Brown wrote:
>The Ostrogoths (Latinized variously as _ostrogothi_, _autrogothi_ - the
>letter
>perhaps through mistaken folk etymology linking it with Latin 'auster'
>[south,
>south wind]), and which I've seen anglicized as Ostergoths (surely
>'Eastergoths'
>would be better) are almost certainly the eastern Goths.
Ostro- fits the Germanic "east" about equally bad,
since this should be *austra-. Sure at least
Wulfilan Gothic (which is essentially Visi-) has
gone through a *au > /O:/ sound change, but what
one would have to do is to look up the "east" word
in a Gothic dictionary. Unfortunately I don't
have one handy at the moment...
And what would Gothi or Gotones become in French?
/BP 8^)
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