Re: Res: [tied] Re: Visigothic kings - Gothic names

On 2007-05-21 23:53, Brian M. Scott wrote:

> Joseph M. Piel & Dieter Kremer, Hispano-Gotisches Namenbuch
> (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1976), §283, discuss the handful
> of Hispano-Gothic names in <Un->, saying that in general the
> source is probably *hu:n- 'young bear', but that the suffix
> of masculine <Vniscus> 887 and feminine <Unisco> 916, 986,
> etc. points towards the 'Hun' ethnonym.

That does make sense. The etymology I've given (*Wunisko:) is supported
by Holthausen, who however doesn't explain the suffix.

Piotr