Re: [tied] Dabragezas

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 23186
Date: 2003-06-13

 
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From: george knysh
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*****GK: [of "Dabragezas"] This is one of the "Antic" names that Struminski considered to be likely Gothic. I can certainly see the argument for the second part thereof, but the first sounded Slavic to me. Perhaps Piotr might clarify.******
What's the exact form in which the name is attested? Is it really <dabragezas>? The adjective *dHabHro- does not seem to have any known reflexes in Germanic, whilst Slavic names in <dobro-> (early common Slavic *dabra-), such as Dobrogost, are numerous. I wouldn't like to speculate further before I can verify the accuracy of Alex's quotation. In some cases (remeber our discussion of Ardagast?) a name can be etymologised equally well as Slavic or Gothic, and it's very likely that the upper-class Slavs both borrowed and calqued Gothic names (Slavic *a:rdagastU would have been a folk-etymologised loan translation of <ardagasts>).
 
Piotr