Re: New way of getting Goth-

> PS: Olcaba looks like a genuine Cuman and Petcheneg name
> (with the typical -aba/-oba/-opa suffix). Those Turkic groups
> also had Scythian ancestry (Cumans were called Kyptchaks,
> i.e. "red Scythians", Middle Iranian kip "red; southern" &
> chak "Saka" = Scythian). Was Olcaba/Olthaces a local (Adjar?)
> guy or one of Sarmatian extraction?

I was wondering if, considering the possibility that Olthacus and Olcaba was the same person, whether Olkaba <- *Oltk-aba. Would that make sense? That -aba/-oba/-opa suffix, do you have further information on that?


Torsten