From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 57874
Date: 2008-04-23
>Of course is not Iulius because yu > gj of Proto-Albanian is ended
> At 8:52:05 PM on Tuesday, April 22, 2008, alexandru_mg3
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > George, Gyula is obviously from Iuliu(s)
>
> And yet the name regularly appears in medieval records as
> <Gyula>, occasionally <Geula> or <Gula>, even in Latin
> contexts: e.g., <Gyula filius Ladizlai>, <Tiburtius, Gyula,
> Alexander et Helias comites vice regia discutientes>,
> <magistri Gyule filii comitis Baldini iuvenis nostri ...
> magister Gyula simul cum Stephano fratre suo>, <venerabilis
> uir magister Nycholaus sancte Strigoniensis ecclesie electus
> eiusdemque loci comes perpetuus aule nostre cancellarius et
> magister Gyula filius Ladislay woyewode frater eiusdem>,
> <Thomas ... pro se et pro duobus filys suis Gula et Paulo
> vocatis>, <Fassio Comitis Mathie et Ratholdi filiorum condam
> Rolandi Bani fratris Comitis Giula Judicis Curiae Regiae
> super possessione Aravicah in Comitatu Posegensi pro matre
> sua relicta ... condam Rolandi>, <Stephanus filius Gule de
> Puruzlov>, etc. One also occasionally find <Jula> ~ <Iula>,
> but not <Iulius> or the like, though <Julian> and <Julianus>
> are found. (Citations from Fehértói Katalin, Árpád-kori
> szemalynévtár (1000-1301).)
>
> Brian