Re: [tied] "ger"

thank you, piotr. it hangs together, now.
~papa stolte

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 15-10-03 01:27, papastolte wrote:
>
> > can you comment, then, on a name, such as 'GERhardt'?
> > ~papa
>
> Names with <ger> or <gar> etymologised as 'spear' date from later

times

> -- a few centuries after Julius Caesar's encounter with the

Germani.

> They are West Germanic (from Old English, Old High German, Old

Saxon,

> Frankish, Langobardic, etc.) or Norse. In both groups Proto-

Germanic

> (and proto-Northwest-Germanic) *z changed into /r/, hence *gaizaz
> 'spear' --> OE ga:r, OIc. geirr, OSax., OHG ge:r. <Gerhardt>

reflects

> OHG Ge:r-hart. The same element appears as <gais> (or <geis>,

<gaes>) in

> early sources, hence e.g. Goth. Harja-gais = OE Here-ga:r (both

from

> *xarja-gaizaz).
>
> Piotr