Re: Nordwestblock (self-correction)

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 1996
Date: 2000-04-02

 
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From: Piotr Gasiorowski
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Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 5:45 PM
Subject: [cybalist] Re: Odp: Odp: Odp: Nordwestblock

 
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Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 1:36 PM
Subject: [cybalist] Re: Odp: Odp: Nordwestblock
 
Verner's Law applies here, and the Germanic word for "people" is *TiuDa- (T & D = English voiceless and voiced th, respectively; cf. Gothic thiuda-, Old English theod). My guess is that the second OBSTRUENT would have been rendered as Latin d (cf. Charivaldus), and the first probably as aspirated th (as in the name of the Goths, Lat. Gothae). I'd bet on something like Theudones.
 
Piotr