Re: Thüringen

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@>
> wrote:
> >
> > So, then, is Thuringian a dialect where /t/ did not
> > change to /c/?
>
> AFAIK Thuringian was affected by the second shift. The presented
> exposee (esp. the link Thuringi – Tervingi) seems therefore

dubious

> to me. On the whole I'd agree now with Piotr and others that the
> phonetically correct form in NHG should be *Düringer < *Þuringôz.
> No connection with Go. *Tairwiggos [terwingôs].

Unless *tur- + whatever isn't Germanic, but a loan, pre-Grimm in the
case of *Þuringo:z, post for terwingo:z.


Torsten