Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"

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

>
> At 4:34:47 PM on Thursday, March 6, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> > <BMScott@> wrote:
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> >> At 3:51:24 PM on Thursday, March 6, 2008, tgpedersen
> >> wrote:
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> >> [...]
>
> >>> 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.

Kuhn argues for a good deal of them being other than that (names in
-so: Hariso, names beginning with P-: Poppo etc)

> That includes OE, ON, WFrk., and
> Hisp.-Goth., as well as the material in Woolf.

Reference?

> The fact that the three names in question aren't dithematic is no
> great bar to their being Gmc.

In either case it would have helped. The way it is you have to match
perfectly with an existing monothematic Germanic name.

> (On that question I've no strong opinion either way.)

If you had it one way, you'd have to prove it. If you had it another
way, you would agree with me. I respect your choice.


Torsten