Re: Germanic - maran/Gothic -mara

At 11:18:54 AM on Tuesday, November 30, 2010, Ton Sales
wrote:

> Guimarães, as widely noticed, is the homologous of the
> well-known Catalan toponym (and family name) Guimerà. For
> that, consult Joan Coromines' Onomasticon Cataloniae vol.
> IV pages 402 and 403. The article must be read complete,
> but I note that Coromines says it comes from an (attested)
> Wigmera(n) (from Germanic *wi:ga- and *mara-), a name we
> find in Visigothic lands from Carcassonne as far the
> Atlantic. Coromines documents the word citing, among many
> authors, J.J.Nunes.

Does he say where <Wigmera> (or oblique <Wigmeran>) is
attested? Piel & Kremer, Hispano-gotisches Namenbuch, show
no forms with the <g>. Morlet has an instance of <Wigmarus>
a.800 from the cartulary of the abbey of Saint Bertin, but
that's way up in northern France. She also has <Wichmar>
1080, but again it's in the north, somewhere on the lower
Rhine.

Brian