Re: Gemination in Celtic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>
> At 2:15:55 PM on Tuesday, April 1, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Is Tutta a Germanic name?
>
> It's attested in Sawyer 291, a charter of 'Adeluulf Rex
> australium populorum' from 842 CE: one of the witnesses is
> <Tutta minister>. (The other names may be seen below, in
> case you're interested in the company that it was keeping.)

It is kind of interesting. They all seem to be standard two-element
Germanic names, except for the supposedly hypochoristic Tutta, plus
the Muhtsar you mention, and Hudda and Lulluc. None of them have rank
above minister, threee of four have names with geminates, and of them
one has the NWBlock suffix -k (cf. paddock, mattuc etc). It
corresponds pretty closely to what Kuhn described elsewhere.

> It looks to me like a pretty standard pet form, similar to
> <Totta> for <Torhthelm> (or some other name in <Torht->). I
> can't tell you offhand what name might have generated it;
> the obvious choice is an Anglo-Scand. <Þursta:n> from
> OEScand <Þurste:n>, though this is just a bit on the early
> side for that.

See my answer to Piotr.

> S291 witness list:
>
> + Adeluulf rex .
> + Ceolnod archiepiscopus .
> + Beormod episcopus .
> + Edelstan Rex .
>
> + Adeluulf dux .
> + Alhere dux .
> + Werehard presbyter .
> + Dryhtnoð presbyter .
>
> + Adelhun . presbyter .
> + Beormod presbyter .
> + Muhtsar minister .
> + Tutta minister .
>
> + Ethelmoð .
> + Adelrit .
> + Alhard .
> + Hudda .
>
> + Edelred .
> + Lulluc .
> + Beasnoð .
>
> By the way, does anyone have any ideas about <Muhtsar>?
> Besides the somewhat desperate expedient of taking <ht> as
> an error for <th> and making him a pain in the mouth?

Torsten