[tied] Re: Visigothic kings - Gothic names

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>
> I remember being told in History of the Spanish
> Language that Wamba meant "belly", Spanish "barrigón"

It still does in Danish. The father in the Danish translation of the
old cartoon strip "The Captain and the Kids" is named Kaptajn Vom.
Some ill-mannered journalist further applied that name to our present
Prince Consort.


Torsten