Re[2]: [tied] Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"

At 4:34:47 PM on Thursday, March 6, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> At 3:51:24 PM on Thursday, March 6, 2008, tgpedersen
>> wrote:

>> [...]

>>> Typical Germanic names are two-element: Ro-bert,
>>> Sigi-mar, and yours truly.

>> I think that you greatly underestimate the number of
>> simplex Germanic names.

>> [...]

> Please continue?

In every Gmc. naming tradition that I've examined in any
detail, simplex names and monothematic diminutives are
well-represented. That includes OE, ON, WFrk., and
Hisp.-Goth., as well as the material in Woolf. The fact
that the three names in question aren't dithematic is no
great bar to their being Gmc. (On that question I've no
strong opinion either way.)

Brian