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Sent: Saturday, August
24, 2002 11:03 PM
Subject: Re: [tied]
Tudor
> Interesting - now would the forms
Tudyr (more 'correct' than Tudur I believe) and Theodoric be homologous or
analogous?
I think a good number of dithematic names
in Germanic (including Theodoric) can be regarded as "loan translations" from
Celtic or at least as reflecting the same onomastic pattern which appears
to be areal (cf. similar Baltic and Slavic names) rather than strictly
inherited.
> To what extent can personal names be
surmised to be cognate in the various IE languages? I assume it to be between
zero and very little. The extant Brythonic languages have many similarities
(with 'Cumbrian' also) and I have been informed that a number of similarites
with Goedelic exist, but can we trace any names further back? Seeing as we can
trace the name of only one god (I think), would this be to
optimistic?
I agree, though I suppose some _types_ of names must be really old (epithetic
compound names, certain hypocoristic transformations), even if individual PIE
names are nor reconstructible (after all, they were not ordinary lexical
items).
> Have Tocharian personal names been
studied methodically? Are they IE? Thanks
for your time and patience in dealing with these questions.
I wonder if _any_ unquestionably Tocharian
personal names are documented. I know nothing about them at any
rate.
Piotr