Re: On the old amber road?

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 67732
Date: 2011-06-11

W dniu 2011-06-11 15:14, george knysh pisze:

> ****GK: Another possibility. If "Butones" is a mistranscribed "Gutones",
> could "Mugilones" be a mistranscribed "Rugilones" (after all the Rugi
> were right next door and twixt Vistula and Oder...)****

They have been so emended before:
http://tinyurl.com/6djxh7w

The problem is that there are no +Rugilones among the attested variants
of the actual ethnonym <Rugii> (though the complex suffix *-ilan-,
*-ilo:n- is common in Germanic diminutive formations -- suffice it to
mention Attila, Wulfila and of course Rugila the Hun). There have also
been inconvincing attempts to analyse <Mugilones> as a Slavic name (from
*mogyla 'burial mound, kurgan').

Piotr