From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 66935
Date: 2010-12-05
At 6:44:26 PM on Tuesday, November 30, 2010, Ton Sales
wrote:
> Responding to Brian and João:In other words, <Wigmera(n)> *isn't* attested; it's
> Germanic Wigamera (soon contracted into Wigmera) appears
> as "Latin" Vimaranus in Historia compostelana (1586).
Given the Portuguese form, it has to be *Wi(g)maranis, *Wi(g)maranes with intervocalic /n/. The only other possibility would be a scribal error leading to *Wi(g)maralis, *Wi(g)marales.
There is a Medieval Ibero-Romance form Guiomar, that occasionally crops up as a name in Spanish and Portuguese --but the spelling on this one may suggest *Wilmar (because of Portuguese /l/ > /w/ --although I don't know when that kicked in)