Agreed, it seemed quite speculative even before the geminate issue. The Gothic Little Daddy explanation is a lot simpler!
18.06.2025 08:55 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I was reminded of our exchange regarding the Yiddish-like Germanic interpretation of Attila. Any thoughts on the etymology proposed here??
18.06.2025 07:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
RAM pulls no punches
02.06.2025 04:08 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The crazy thing is that 群 underwent OC *gur → MC *kun, and 駿 underwent OC *tsur- → MC *tsun (or something) according to BS. Perhaps there was some awareness of these older pronunciations at the time of borrowing?
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marco kasper appreciation post
28.01.2025 02:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Very cool! Yeah I was curious about the original Gothic. That pronunciation doesn’t really mesh with modern English phonotactics but as you pointed out , it’s practically Yiddish😄
24.09.2024 10:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stress on first syllable?
24.09.2024 05:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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