Re: Attila, Etzel (was: Alanic horseman)

So you're saying the Edsel was the Attila of cars?


--- tolgs001 <george_st@...> wrote:

> >It was a nasal stem, so from the strictly formal
> point of view it
> >should have been something like **atilo:N/**atilen-
> >
> >**otIly/**otIlen-, perhaps eventually levelled out
> to **otIlenI. But
> >if the Slavs understood the meaning of the name,
> they might have used
> >their native *atiko- > *otIcI, just replacing the
> Gothic diminutive
> >suffix with a Slavic one.
> >
> >Piotr
>
> If -ila (or -illa, as modern Turks spell it) was a
> diminutival suffix.
> But what if Attila did not have the meaning ata
> "father" + -ila? What
> if it had to do (e.g. as a hypothesis) with Atil,
> Itil, Etil "Volga"?
> (Or a similar river.) Or a third (unknown) meaning.
>
> NB: various pronuciations/spellings in early texts:
> Ethele, Etzel
> (including the oldest Hungarian medieval chronicles
> as well as the
> German 'Niebelungenlied').
>
> George
>
>

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