Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"

> >> 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.

For a second there, I thought you'd misspelt Wolof.

> >> 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.

No, I'm willing to settle for a match with a monothematic non-regional
Germanic name.


Torsten