Re: New way of getting Goth-

From: Torsten
Message: 66896
Date: 2010-11-30

> *'s-kodan auja "the Goth's coast"
> cf the Finnish designation of the Øresund as "the Jute stream"
ie. the Goth stream
> or "the coast of the home".

Mela
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomponius_Mela
*kodaN -> Codanus Sinus "the Baltic"
*kodaN auja -> Codanovia "Scandinavia"
Pliny
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder
*'s kodaN auja -> Sca(n)dinauia
*kdaN- -> (Mare) Cronium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Julius_Solinus
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/solinus5.html
*kdaN auja -> *gdaN auja -> Gangauia
Mirabilia Mundi XX
'7 Gangauia insula e regione Germaniae mittit animal quale alce, sed cuius suffragines ut elephantis flecti nequeunt; propterea non cubat, cum dormiendum est, tamen somnulentam arbor sustinet, quae prope casuram secatur, ut fera dum adsuetis fulmentis innititur faciat ruinam. Ita capitur: alioqui difficile est eam mancipari, nam in illo rigore poplitum inconprehensibili fuga pollet.
8 De Germanicis insulis Gangauia maxima est, sed nihil in ea magnum praeter ipsam.'

FWIW, the two latter didn't stress the first syllable, a characteristic of post-Verner Germanic.



Torsten