Schuhmann R. Introduction to Biblical Gothic

Leiden Summer School, 2022. — 173 p.The subject of this book is the language of the Germanic people of the Goths. Its oldest verifiable name form is Gr. Goútōnes, Lat. Gutones (later Gotones), based on a Germ.-Goth. *Gutans n-st. ‘the Goths’; cf. also Goth. dat. ana gut-þiudai ‘en gotthía, in the Gothic people’ (twice in the Gothic calendar [Kal 1:1.7]; cf. OIcl. [uncertainly transmitted] Gotþjóð next to assimilated Goðþjóð), OE Gotan (nom.sg. Gota, dat.sg. Gotan, nom.pl. Gotan, gen.pl. Gotena), OGut. Gutnalþing (= Gutna alþing ‘the all-thing of the Goths’), OIcl. (gen.pl.) Gotna, OSwed. (sg.) guti, (pl.) gutar; the demonym is probably also existent in Run. gutani (gold ring from Pietroasele, 1st half of the 5th century); the form is mostly interpreted as a genitive plural, i.e.
as ‘of the Goths’. Younger (from the 3 rd century) is the declension as o-stem in Latin and in Greek: Lat. Got(h)i, Gr. Gó(t)thoi.