09-30-2010, 03:54 AM
Quote:Hello Chris,
Point well taken, and thanks for knowledgable imput. The insinuation came not from me only, but borrowed from something I read, from Snyder I think. "Cyn" and "Cym" are so similar that both might be taken as Celtic. The attachment "ric," like in Meuric or Mouric (from a famous Celtic family), can be found beyond Saxon and in Gothic-- such as Alaric or Theodoric-- where it means the same thing, alluding to power or high status, as in "reiks." A hundred years ago, the background of Cerdic and Cynric would never have been questioned, but I was borrowing from modern authors. And my point was intended to illustrate the possible, even probable, upheaval during the latter stages of Britonic power in post-Roman Britain.
Mouric does not contain a "ric" suffix, but rather a Latin -ic (as it comes from Latin Mauricius "Moorish").
Christopher Gwinn