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

At 5:47:03 PM on Thursday, March 6, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- 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:

>>>> 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.

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

A great many, however, have good Gmc. pedigrees.

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

> Reference?

For?

Woolf is that old war-horse _The Old Germanic Principles of
Name-Giving_, by Henry B. Woolf, The Johns Hopkins Press,
1939.

>> 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.

Only if you think that a dithematic name has to have proto-
and deuterothemes that match perfectly with existing Gmc.
proto- and deuterothemes, respectively. A plausible Gmc.
etymology is a more realistic goal.

Brian