Re: Tudrus

> > > Unless -ri:k- is a suffix.
> >
> > In a masculine name? One can imagine all sorts of fanciful
> > things when one is unconstrained by the evidence.
>
>
> The constraining evidence here is the existence of
> Arminius/Ermanaric. In the case of Theodor/Theodoric the suffix would
> rather be the -ik of tauber/Täuberich and ganser/Gänserich.

Ie. a diminutive suffix, which would mean that Teodoric = little Theodor, Teddy.

Torsten

-ico is diminutive in Spanish and Italian but I don't know when it kicked in nor its provenance