Re[2]: [tied] migration?

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 19826
Date: 2003-03-14

At 8:51:52 AM on Thursday, March 13, 2003, João Simões Lopes
Filho wrote:

> Marcomir seems Germanic < *Marka-me:raz, with same ending as Ranimirus,
> Waldemar, Sigmar, Aelfmaer, etc

> Would give-
> Gothic *Markame^rs (dialectal *Markamirs)
> OE *Mearcmaer
> OHG *Marchma:r
> ON *Markmárr

Which would have weakened to *Markmarr, judging by the ON
names that actually contain this deuterotheme.

<Marcamarus> occurs in the Polyptique d'Irminon; I imagine
that here it would be of Frankish provenance.

Brian