Re: [tied] Rugi and RusI

Thanks a lot! You saved me another time. Do you exclude the Rugians
may have been of the East Germanic stock? What could be a possible
Gothic reflex of *rugijaz?

Sergei

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> The primitive Germanic form would have been *rug- (with appropriate
suffixes) -- as simple as that. ON -rygir and OE *-ryge (dat.pl. -
rygum with analogical umlaut) are original collective formations
(*rug-ija-z) used in lieu of the nom.pl. and also as territorial
names ('the country of the Rugians'). The protoform of OE holm and ON
hólmr is *xulma-z, so the hypothetical back-projection of the
Hulmerugi on the PGmc. plane would be *xulma-rugija-.
>