Re: CHAT: Visigoths (was: YADPT (D=Dutch))

Quoting John Cowan <cowan@...>:

> Andreas Johansson scripsit:
>
> > Thought: Gothic is East Germanic, while the Götar spoke North Germanic
> > dialects. This ought to suggest that any common origin goes all the
> > way back to Common Germanic - when in time would that place us?
>
> Somewhere around the beginning of the Common Era.  And certainly Gothic
> and Old Norse are more alike than either is like any West Germanic.
Well, since when we first heard of the Goths around 100 AD, they appear to
have lived on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, I guess that's tolerably
good news for the Göticists (=people who identify the Goths with the Götar,
and in this find reason for Swedish national pride).

BTW, I found yet another Latin pl; _Goti_. Was there any difference in
pronunciation between |t| and |th| in Late Ancient Latin?

                                                      Andreas