Re: [tied] Tzoutzé:meris

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 33050
Date: 2004-06-03

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Subject: RE: [tied] Tzoutz�:meris


> Looks as if from *C^udjIme^rI or *TjudjIme^rI with *c^udjI -- a possessive
adj. from *c^udo 'wonder', *tjudjI 'foreign, somebody else's' (both with
word-final vocalism (-I) -- this is legal in Slavic compound proper names),
but I must admit I've never come across a Slavic compound proper name with
these components (*c^ud-,*tjudj-) before. Other ideas?

On the other hand, *�euda- is extremely common in Germanic names, and
*�euda-mE:r- of course has attested reflexes (Thietmar, Theudomer, etc.). We
may be dealing with an onomastic calque from Germanic (cf. the earlier
discussions of the etymological ambiguity of names like Ardagast).

Piotr