Re: Re[2]: [tied] aldric, luis, aldrin = etymology?

Could Alaric be All-king?

Joao SL

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Subject: Re: Re[2]: [tied] aldric, luis, aldrin = etymology?


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> Brian M. Scott wrote:
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> > Correctly identified by the original querent: *alda- 'old'.
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> so Alaric should be seen as "the old king" or "the big king"? I think now
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> Gothik "alan", which appears somehow better as "alÞeis" for making an
> compositum as "*alda-riga"
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