--- gknysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

> The GUTHALUS is mentioned by Pliny in his Historia
> Naturalis (IV,100)
> as a river flowing into the Baltic. It has sometimes
> been identified
> as the Oder. Some suggest that the "GUT" refers to
> the Goths. I'm
> wondering if an alternative etymology might be
> possible, viz., where
> GUTHALUS might mean something like "good (sea)neck"
> in Old Germanic.

%%%%%%GK: Or "neck of the outlet [outpour]"??%%%%%%

> What do you think Piotr?
>
>

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