From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 3468
Date: 2000-08-29
----- Original Message -----From: Piotr GasiorowskiSent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 12:01 PMSubject: Re: [tied]----- Original Message -----From: João Simões Lopes FilhoSent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 3:35 PMSubject: Re: [tied]The Goths did not call themselves "Goths" with th/dh. This is a late Graeco/Latin name for the original Gutones. We discussed the whole Gothic issue on Cybalist a long while ago; you can try to find the thread. There are no formal obstacles against comparing their name with that of the Gauts (Geatas, Gautar), though of course they were not the same ethnos. It's more like the case of Slovaks/Slovincians/Slovenes etc.PiotrPiotrI think *gauta- (Geats, Gautar) is a different root of *guth-/gudh- (Goths)...Joao SLRio----- Original Message -----From: Piotr GasiorowskiSent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 4:25 AMSubject: Re: [tied]----- Original Message -----From: Dennis PoulterSent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 2:51 AMSubject: Re: [tied]It's usually assumed that *gauta- and *gut-o:n- contain the same root. The "Geats" (Geatas = Norse Gautar) of Beowulf were a Swedish people.Piotr
Also, could the Jutes have any connection with Goths? I only ask this on the
basis of the modern Swedish pronunciation of Goteborg, usually rendered
Gothenburg in English.