--- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> And why these extra assumptions? Because we could then analyse
> Thoringia (Thuringia) as *þor-ing- etc. If we didn't, who were
> those people then -ing-'s, followers of, if not of þor?
"th" in Roman Latin was pronounced as [t] + [h], not as the thorn
letter. In "Thuringi" the Romans heard an aspirated "t". An older
name for that tribe was "Hermanduri". "Thuringi" means "sons of the
Duri", plus that the High German sound shift has started including
[d] to [t].
Note also Roman "Saltus Teutoburgensis", with thorn spelt as "t", if
this name means "people fort", and if |as is likely) the modern
German spelling "Teutoburgerwald" has been influenced via learned
routes from the Roman record.