From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 67027
Date: 2011-01-04
> From: Brian M. Scott <bm.brian@...>I don't think that I've seen that suggestion.
>> At 7:54:08 PM on Saturday, January 1, 2011, Rick
>> McCallister wrote:
>>> From: Torsten <tgpedersen@...>
>>>>> ***I've seen lots of popular texts gloss Thiuderich
>>>>> "People's King" (vel sim) as Theodoric "Gift of God"
>>>>> --esp. the first barbarian king of Italy
>>>> That's the standard interpretation. also in Wikipedia
>>>> There is a suffix *-ri:k in German Enterich, Da.
>>>> andrik, Engl. drake (*and- "duck")
>> No suffix there: the vowel isn't long, and the second
>> element is probably a WGmc. *drako or the like, perhaps
>> originally an independent word for 'male duck'.
> I've always seen it as a (¿humorous?) derivation from
> draco
>>>> possibly Gothic Ermanaric(?)The first element is *ermVn- 'wide, vast', hence 'great,
> and not from Herrmann-Rik? "Over Lord King" (vel sim)?
>> Gothic *Þiudareiks (LLat. <Theodoricus>) is pretty<Didier> doesn't belong here: it's from <Desiderius>. You
>> clearly from *þiuðo:-ri:kaz and unrelated to the Gk.
>> name.
> In any case, one would wonder why Thiudarik would evolve
> into Derek, Dirk, Dietrich, Didier, etc.
> and Theodoros just remained as Theodore, Theodore,The classical models were at hand, and in many cases they
> Teodoro, etc. But that's another question --why classical
> names persist closer to the original form while Germanic
> names tended to evolve.