Visigoth
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin Visigothus, from Gothic. According to Mallory & Adams, possibly a tribal name derived from Proto-Germanic *wesuz (reflected in personal names such as Old High German *wisu), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wésus (“good, excellent”). If so, related to Proto-Celtic *wesus (found in personal names), the Italic goddess Vesuna, and Sanskrit वसु (vasu, “good, excellent”).
The term was coined by Cassiodorus under the misapprehension that it meant "west Goths".
Noun
Visigoth (plural Visigoths)
Derived terms
Translations
member of an East Germanic tribe
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References
- Mallory & Adams (2006): The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World
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