Re[2]: [tied] Tolkien and Germanic astronomy

At 3:48:22 PM on Monday, February 17, 2003, Piotr
Gasiorowski wrote:

> Yes. The Langobardic name occurs in an eighth-century
> legal document (a "charta dotis"), signed by several
> witnesses. Among the signatures we fing "signum + manus
> Auriuuandali". Further down the page, there's another
> similar name, <Auripert> (*aur&-berht-), etymologisable as
> 'dawn-bright'. I've seen it argued somewhere that the
> Langobardic forms falsify the theory of a connection with
> the 'dawn' etymon, but I fail to see why. Pace some
> popular classifications, Langobardic was a dialect with
> West Germanic features, complete with rhotacised *z's, as
> the name immediately following Auriwald's in the very same
> document demonstrates: it is <Gairipald> (*gair&-bald- <
> *gaiza-bald-).

And there's no shortage of similar examples: <Gairepert>
754, <Garipert> 8th c., <Gheiripald> 759, <Gherimundus>
8th-10th c. (Maria Giovanna Arcamone, 'Die langobardischen
Personennamen in Italien', in _Nomen et gens_, drawing on
Codice Diplomatico Longobardo).

Do I gather from your comment that some want to classify
Lang. as East Gmc.? On what basis?

Brian