From: tgpedersen
Message: 13647
Date: 2002-05-07
>Torsten:followers", which name, translated into Germanic, becomes <Tu:r-ing->.
> > 60BCE They set up camp in Thuringia as *erman-e-tu:r > <Hermundur-
> (in my best Tauric, assuming this was an Iranic language) "Tu:r
--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> And this *-tu:r- part appears as <-duri> (short <u>), <-doroi> in
ancient sources. Some kind of folk etymology, I presume.
>
> Piotr
You got me intrigued there. Folk etymology from what to what?
Torsten