Re: Gemination in Celtic

On 2008-04-02 00:27, tgpedersen wrote:

> 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.

There were quite a few Anglo-Saxon kings with such names, including one
Saba (a.k.a. Sæ:berht of Essex) and several different Offas.

Piotr