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{{Short description|Topic in Germanic philology}}
{{Other uses|Goth (disambiguation)|Gothic (disambiguation)}}
[[File:Pietroassa ring 1875.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1|[[Runic]] inscriptions on the [[Ring of Pietroassa]] provides critical evidence on the name of the [[Goths]].]]
The '''name of the Goths''' is one of the most discussed topics in [[Germanic philology]].{{sfn|Lehmann|1986|pp=163–164}}{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=19-24}} It is first recorded by [[Greco-Roman world|Greco-Roman]] writers in the 3rd century AD, although names that are probably related appear earlier. Derived from [[Proto-Germanic]] *''Gutōz'' ~ *''Gutaniz'', it is closely related to and probably means the same as the names of both the ''[[Geats]]'' of southern [[Sweden]] and ''[[Gutes]]'' of [[Gotland]]. The implications of these similarities, and the actual meaning of the Gothic name, are disputed in scholarship.

==Endonym and exonym==
In the [[Gothic language]], the Goths referred to themselves collectively as the *''[[:wiktionary:gutþiuda|Gut-þiuda]]'' "Gothic people", attested as [[dative]] singular ''Gutþiudai''.{{sfn|Lehmann|1986|pp=163–164}}{{sfn|Scardigli|2002|p=557}} Gutthiuda could also mean "Land of the Gothic people".{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=20, 22, 90}}

The name of the Goths was probably first recorded by Greek and Roman writers as ''Gutones'', an [[exonym]] referring to a people dwelling in the [[Vistula]] region during the 1st–2nd century AD. Gradually, forms written with "o" instead of "u", and "th" instead of simple "t", came to dominate in both Latin (e.g. {{langx|la|Gothi|label=none}}) and Greek (γόθοι).<ref>{{harvtxt|Lehmann|1986|p=164}} and  {{harvtxt|Andersson|1998b|p=402}} cites the examples collected by Schönfeld in 1911 ([https://archive.org/details/wrterbuchderaltg00schn/page/120 p.120]–[https://archive.org/details/wrterbuchderaltg00schn/page/123 p.123]).</ref> Within medieval Germanic languages, the Goths are attested as ''Gotan'' (plural) in [[Old English]] and as ''Goti'' (singular) in [[Old Norse]].{{Sfn|de Vries|1962|p=183}}{{Sfn|Orel|2003|p=147}} 

A Germanic [[Proto-Germanic grammar#an-stems|''an''-stem]] variant of the name, *''Gutan-'' (Goth), is inferred from a [[genitive]] plural form ''gutani'', found on the [[Ring of Pietroassa#Inscription|Pietroassa inscription]] and possibly equivalent to Biblical Gothic ''Gutanē'', and from the aforementioned Germano-Latin form ''Gutones ~'' ''Gotones''.{{Sfn|Orel|2003|p=147}}{{sfn|Lehmann|1986|pp=163–164}}{{sfn|Brink|2002|p=688}}{{sfn|Andersson|1998b|p=402}}

Another group of related ethnonyms is believed to be attested in Scandinavia, where the oldest forms of the name of the [[Geats]] were built from a root ''Gaut-''. This could be an [[ablaut]] form of ''Gut-'', although it has also been proposed that this was the normal stem corresponding to *''Gutans'', despite the different vowel.{{sfn|Brink|2002}}{{sfn|Rübekeil|2002}}

==Etymology==
The [[Proto-Germanic]] form of ''Goth'' is reconstructed as *''Gutaz'' (<small>pl.</small> *''Gutōz''), which co-existed with an ''an''-stem variant *''[[:wiktionary:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/gutô|Gutō(n)]]'' (<small>pl.</small> *''Gutaniz'') observable in the forms ''Gutones'' and ''gutani''.{{Sfn|Orel|2003|p=147}}{{sfn|Strid|2011|p=43}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Haubrichs|first=Wolfgang|date=2017|title=Krieg, Volk und Verwandtschaft. Zur Struktur und kulturellen Signifikanz ostgotischer Frauennamen|journal=Archiv für Kulturgeschichte|volume=99|issue=2|pages=297–340|doi=10.7788/akg-2017-990202|s2cid=186900650|issn=0003-9233|quote=ostgerm. *gutô ,Gotin‘}}</ref> *''Gutaz'' was also borrowed into [[Proto-Baltic]] as *''Gudaz'', as attested in the [[Old Prussian]] prefix ''gud''- (in place names) and in the [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanian]] name ''Gùdas'', meaning 'Polish' or 'Belarusian', here transferred to the peoples that replaced the Goths south of their territory.{{Sfn|de Vries|1962|p=183}}{{Sfn|Orel|2003|p=147}} [[File:Name of the Goths.png|thumb|366x366px|Etymology of the name 'Goth']]
These forms are identical to the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the ''[[Gutes]]'' ([[Old Norse]] <small>pl.</small> ''Gutar ~'' ''Gotar'' < *''Gutōz''), a North Germanic tribe that dwelled on the island of [[Gotland]].{{Sfn|de Vries|1962|p=183}}<ref name=":0">{{harvnb|Brink|2002|p=688}}; {{harvnb|Brink|2008|pp=90, 110}}</ref>{{sfn|Strid|2011|p=43}} The adjective ''gutniskr ~'' ''gotniskr'' ("Gothic, [[Gutnish]]"), which descends from an earlier *''gutan-iskaʀ'', and the noun ''gutnar'' ~ ''gotnar'' ("men"), whose ancestral form is *''gutaniz'', also give evidence of the ''an''-stem.{{Sfn|de Vries|1962|p=183}}<ref name=":0" /> Scholars have noted that [[Old Norse]] sources do not distinguish between Gutes and Goths.{{Sfn|de Vries|1962|p=183}}{{sfn|Strid|2011|p=43}} 

The ethnonym ''[[Geats]]'' (or ''Gauts''; Old Norse ''gautar'') stems from Proto-Germanic *''Gautōz'' (singular *''[[:wiktionary:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/gautaz|Gautaz]]''),{{sfn|Rübekeil|2002|pp=603-604}}{{sfn|Brink|2008|pp=90, 110}}{{sfn|Strid|2011|p=43}} which shares the same etymology and possibly the same meaning as *''Gutōz'' ~ *''Gutaniz''.{{sfn|Rübekeil|2002|pp=603-604}}{{sfn|Andersson|1996|pp=13ff}} The root ''gaut''- can also be found in the names of the ''[[Göta älv]]'' river in Sweden, in ''[[Götaland]]'' (the Swedish homeland of the [[Geats|Geats/Gauts]]), and in the name of *''[[Gaut]]'' (PGmc *''Gautaz''), the mythical ancestor of the Goths attested by [[Jordanes]] as ''Gapt''.{{sfn|Brink|2002|p=688}}{{Sfn|Orel|2003|p=129}}{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=20-21}} The root ''gut''- is also possibly attested in [[:wiktionary:Guthalus|''Guthalus'']], a river in [[Germania]] mentioned by [[Pliny the Elder]] and which could refer to a 'Gothic river'.{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=20-21}}

The roots ''gut-'' and ''gaut-'' are generally thought to be related to the Proto-Germanic verb *''geutanan'', meaning "to pour" (cf. Goth. ''[[:wiktionary:giutan|giutan]]''),{{Sfn|Orel|2003|pp=129, 147}}{{sfn|Lehmann|1986|pp=163–164}}{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|p=21}} which is in turn derived from the [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] root [[:wiktionary:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/ǵʰewd-|''*ǵʰewd-'']] ("to pour").{{sfn|Lehmann|1986|p=156}} It is not clear, however, whether the name *''Gutaz'' stems from *''Gautaz'' or the other way around, or else directly from the verb *''geutanan''.{{Sfn|Orel|2003|pp=129, 147}}

In any case, as Wolfram explains, the existence of various peoples sharing this name does not necessarily imply large-scale migrations of one unified people: "not entire peoples, but small successful clans, the bearers of prestigious traditions, emigrated and became the founders of new ''gentes''".{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|p=39}}

==Meaning==
Though the etymology of the Gothic name connects to words for pouring, its actual meaning remains uncertain.{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=19-24}} Various interpretations have been suggested: the pouring could refer to a river or a flooded homeland, the name could mean "people" in the sense of being "seed-spreaders" or "progenitors", or else refer to the name of an ancestor.{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|p=21}}{{sfn|Wolfram|2004|p=47}}

Wolfram interprets the Gothic name as meaning "men",{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|p=12}} and suggests that it might have meant "out-pourers" in the sense of "seed, the progenitors, the men".{{sfn|Wolfram|2004|p=47}} Some, including Peter Heather,{{sfn|Heather|2018|p=673}} have also suggested that ''Goths'' meant "the people".{{sfn|Lehmann|1986|pp=163–164}} In Old Norse, ''Goti'' can mean "Goth" or "man", and ''gotnar'' signifies "men".{{Sfn|de Vries|1962|p=183}}

Another theory is to interpret Goths as the "seed-spreaders", hence the "stallions", "horses", or some other impregnating animal which may have been a deity. The term ''goti'' is used in [[Old Icelandic]] for "horse".{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|p=21}}{{sfn|Lehmann|1986|pp=163–164}} The root ''gut''- is also found in an Old Norse and later [[Scandinavian languages|Scandinavian]] verbs meaning "to give birth". On this account, Icelandic linguist [[:is:Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon|Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon]] suggested that the Gothic name may have referred to those "born and bred" in the north.{{sfn|Kristinsson|2010|pp=144, 175}}

As the word ''Goth'' is closely related to the Proto-Germanic verb "to pour", [[Anders Kaliff]] has favoured the idea that the Gothic name may mean "the people living where the river has their outlet" or "the people who are connected by the rivers and the sea".{{sfn|Kaliff|2008|p=236}}

[[Jordanes]] writes in ''[[Getica]]'' that the ancestor of the Goths was named Gapt (Proto-Germanic: *''Gaut'').{{sfn|Rübekeil|2002|pp=603-604}}{{sfn|Brink|2002|p=688}} In [[Scandinavia]], Gaut was considered to be a manifestation of the Germanic god [[Odin]],{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|p=110}} and the Geats derived their ethnonym from this name. The Geats and royal [[Lombards]] and [[Anglo-Saxons]] claimed descent from Gaut.{{sfn|Wolfram|1997|pp=26-28}} Wolfram notes that the Gothic name may thus mean "sons of Gaut".{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|p=21}}

Regardless of the meaning of the Gothic name, [[Herwig Wolfram]] writes that it is certain that "the tribal name Goths means the same as Gauts". According to Wolfram, this is of bigger importance than its actual meaning.{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|p=21}} [[Elias Wessén]] writes that it is impossible to separate the words Gutar, Götar, Goths, *Gutans and Gauti from each other; they all mean the same.{{sfn|Kaliff|2008|p=225}}{{sfn|Wessén|1969|p=28}}

==Attestations==
{{See also|Gutes|Gauts|Gotones}}
The name of the Goths is generally believed to have been first attested by [[Greco-Roman world|Greco-Roman]] writes in the 1st century AD in the form ''Gutones''.{{sfn|Andersson|1998b|p=402}}<ref name="Wolfram_12">{{harvnb|Wolfram|1990|pp=12–13, 20, 23}}: "Goths—or Gutones, as the Roman sources called them... The Gutonic immigrants became Goths the very moment the Mediterranean world considered them "Scythians"... The Gothic name appears for the first time between A.D. 16 and 18. We do not, however, find the strong form Guti but only the derivative form Gutones... Hereafter, whenever the Gutones and Guti are mentioned, these terms refer to the Goths."</ref><ref name="Heather_1998">{{harvnb|Heather|1998|pp=2, 21, 30}}. "Goths are first mentioned occupying territory in what is now Poland in the first century AD... The history of people labelled "Goths" thus spans 700 years... [T]he Wielbark culture.... took shape in the middle of the first century AD... in Pomerania and lands either side of the lower Vistula... [T]his is the broad area where our few literary sources place a group called Goths at this time... Tacitus Germania 43-4 places them not quite on the Baltic coast; Ptolemy Geography 3.5.8 locates them east of the Vistula; Strabo Geography 7.1.3 (if Butones should be emended to Gutones) broadly agrees with Tacitus... The mutually confirmatory information of ancient sources and the archaeological record both suggest that Goths can first be identified beside the Vistula. It is here that this attempt to write their history will begin."</ref> This name was applied to peoples located near the lower [[Vistula]].{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=19-24}} Herwig Wolfram suggests that ''Gutones'' may have meant "young" Goths or "great" Goths.{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|p=20}} 

The Greek geographer [[Strabo]] mentions a people called the ''Butones'' ({{langx|el|Βούτωνας}}), who came under the domination of the [[Marcomanni|Marcomannic]] king [[Maroboduus]].<ref name="Strabo_VII_I_">{{harvnb|Strabo|1924|p=}}, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-eng1:7.1.3 Book VII, Chap. 1. Sec. 3]</ref>{{sfn|Christensen|2002|pp=32-33}} Most scholars believe this name should be corrected to ''Gutones'' (Greek: Γούτωνας).<ref>{{harvnb|Strabo|1924|p=}}, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-eng1:7.1.3 Book VII, Chap. 1. Sec. 3]. "For “Butones” it is fairly certain that Strabo wrote “Gutones” (the Goths)."</ref>{{sfn|Andersson|1998b|p=402}}<ref name="Christensen_32">{{harvnb|Christensen|2002|pp=32–33, 38–39}}. "During the first century and a half AD, four authors mention a people also normally identified with 'the Goths'. They seem to appear for the first time in the writings of the geographer Strabo... It is normally assumed that [the Butones/Gutones] are identical with the Goths... It has been taken for granted that these Gotones were identical to the Goths... Finally, around 150, Klaudios Ptolemaios (or Ptolemy) writes of certain [Gutones/Gythones] who are also normally identified with 'the Goths'... Ptolemy lists the [Gutae], also identified by Gothic scholars with the Goths..."</ref> [[Thorsten Andersson]], [[Peter Heather]] and Wolfram considers Strabo as the first writer to have mentioned the Gothic name.{{sfn|Andersson|1998b|p=402}}<ref name="Wolfram_12"/><ref name="Heather_1998"/><ref name="Wolfram_20">{{harvnb|Wolfram|1990|pp=20, 38}}: "The Gothic name appears for the first time between A.D. 16 and 18. We do not, however, find the strong form Guti but only the derivative form Gutones... They were first mentioned by Strabo."</ref>

Decades after Strabo, in his ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Natural History]]'', Pliny the Elder mentions the ''Gutones'' as one of the peoples of ''Germania''.<ref name="Pliny">{{harvnb|Pliny|1855|p=}}, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D37%3Achapter%3D11 Book IV, Chap. 28]</ref>{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|p=40}}{{sfn|Christensen|2002|pp=34-35}} In an earlier chapter, Pliny writes that the 4th century BC traveler [[Pytheas]] encountered a people called the ''Guiones'' in Germania.<ref name="Pliny_XXXVIII_11">{{harvnb|Pliny|1855|p=}}, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D37%3Achapter%3D11 Book XXXVIII, Chap. 11]</ref> This name is often corrected to ''Gutones'', but several other emendations have been proposed for the text of Pliny.{{sfn|Rübekeil|2002|pp=603-604}}{{sfn|Christensen|2002|pp=25-31}} 

In the work ''[[Germania (book)|Germania]]'', published some years after Pliny, [[Tacitus]] mentions the Gotones/Gothones as one of the ''[[Germani]]''.<ref name="Tacitus_XLIV">{{harvnb|Tacitus|1876a|p=}}, [[:Wikisource:Germania (Church & Brodribb)#XLIV|XLIV]]</ref>{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=40-41}}{{sfn|Christensen|2002|pp=35-36}} In a later work, ''[[Annals (Tacitus)|The Annals]]'', Tacitus again mentions the ''Gotones''.<ref name="Tacitus_2_62">{{harvnb|Tacitus|1876b|p=}}, [[:Wikisource:The Annals (Tacitus)/Book 2#62|62]]</ref>{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=40-41}}{{sfn|Christensen|2002|pp=36-38}} The name ''Gotones/Gothones'' mentioned by Tacitus is generally considered the same as ''Gutones''.<ref name="Christensen_32"/><ref name="Heather_115">{{harvnb|Heather|2010|p=115}}. "In the period of Dacian and Sarmatian dominance, groups known as Goths – or perhaps 'Gothones' or 'Guthones' – inhabited lands far to the north-west, beside the Baltic. Tacitus placed them there at the end of the first century, and Ptolemy did likewise in the middle of the second, the latter explicitly among a number of groups said to inhabit the mouth of the Vistula. Philologists have no doubt, despite the varying transliterations into Greek and Latin, that it is the same group name that suddenly shifted its epicentre from northern Poland to the Black Sea in the third century."</ref>

In his work ''[[Geography (Ptolemy)|Geography]]'', the 2nd-century geographer [[Ptolemy]] mentions the Gutones/Gythones as one of the peoples of [[Sarmatia]].<ref name="Ptolemy">{{harvnb|Ptolemy|1932|p=}}, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/_Texts/Ptolemy/3/5*.html 3.5]</ref>{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=37-39}}{{sfn|Christensen|2002|pp=38-39}} He also mentions the ''Gutae/Gautae/Goutai'' of southern [[Scandia]].<ref name="Ptolemy_2.10">{{harvnb|Ptolemy|1932|p=}}, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/_Texts/Ptolemy/2/10/limited.html 2.10]</ref>{{sfn|Strid|2011|p=43}}{{sfn|Christensen|2002|pp=38-39}} The latter are variants of the name of the Geats and closely related to the name of the Goths.{{sfn|Strid|2011|p=43}}

After Ptolemy, the Gothic name is not attested again until the late 3rd century, when the name ''Goths'' (Latin: Gothi) is explicitly recorded for the first time for a group of peoples living north of the [[Danube]].{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=19-24}} The Gothic name is attested in [[Shapur I]]'s famous [[Shapur I's inscription at the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht|trilingual inscription at Naqsh-e Rostam]], which is dated to 262.{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=19-24}} According to Shapur, "When first I was come to the imperial throne, Gordian Caesar ([[Gordian III]]) assembled a force of Goths and Germans from all of Rome and made an inroad into Assyria against the Aryan empire and us."{{sfn|Sprengling|1940|p=363}} The [[Middle Persian]] inscription is damaged at this point, but the [[Parthian language|Parthian]] reads ''Gvt'' (Goths) and the Greek ''Gouththon'' ("of Goths").{{sfn|Sprengling|1940|pp=360–361}}

In 269 the [[Roman emperor]] [[Claudius II]] assumed the name ''Claudius Gothicus''.{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=19-24}} No ancient sources make a connection between the names ''Gutones'' and ''Goths''.<ref name="Christensen_343"/><ref name="Wolfram_13">{{harvnb|Wolfram|1990|pp=13}}. "No ancient ethnographer made a connection between the Goths and the Gutones. The Gutonic immigrants became Goths the very moment the Mediterranean world considered them "Scythians".</ref> Nevertheless, philologists and linguists have no doubt that these are the same names.<ref name="Heather_115"/><ref name="Christensen_42">{{harvnb|Christensen|2002|p=41}}. "However, linguists believe there is an indisputable connection."</ref> Historian [[Arne Søby Christensen]] on the other hand argues that the similarities between the names are not significant.<ref name="Christensen_343">{{harvnb|Christensen|2002|p=343}}. "They might possibly have been mentioned in some geographical and ethnographical works dating from the first century, but the similarity in the names is not significant, and no antique author later considers them to be the forefathers of the Goths... No one sees this connection, even during the Great Migration. Chronologically it would, of course, be quite a realistic possibility..."</ref> Heather has argued that while this similar name on its could arguably be an "accidental resemblance", there were also other ethnic names, the [[Vandals]] and [[Rugii]], found in what is now Poland in the 1st century, which were similarly found south of the [[Carpathians]] near the Goths in subsequent centuries.{{sfn|Heather|1998|pp=115-116}} 

A [[runic]] inscription on the [[Ring of Pietroassa]] can be read as ''Gutaniwiheilag'', which is usually interpreted as 'the sacred heritage of the Goths'.{{sfn|Strid|2010|p=445}} The name ''Gutani'' probably reflects a form of the Gothic endonym *''Gutans''.{{sfn|Brink|2008|p=104}}{{sfn|Brink|2002|p=688}} Alternatively it reflects a form of the ethnonym of the Gutes.{{sfn|Strid|2010|p=445}}

==Legacy==
The name ''Goths'' was sometimes applied also to several non-Gothic peoples, including [[Burgundians]], [[Vandals]], [[Gepids]], [[Rugii]], [[Sciri]] and even the non-Germanic [[Alans]]. Despite the scarce attestation of their languages, these peoples, with the exception of the Alans, are often referred to as [[East Germanic peoples]]. Herwig Wolfram has instead proposed that all these peoples still be referred to as Gothic peoples.{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=19-20}}

From the late 4th century, the region of [[Dacia]] in the [[Balkans]] came to be referred to as ''Gothia'', as this region had fallen under the control of Goths.{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=19-24}} Within the [[Roman Empire]] the two major Gothic groups were the [[Visigoths]] and [[Ostrogoths]]. The Ostrogothic name is attested in [[Milan]] in 392, while the Visigothic name was invented by [[Cassiodorus]] centuries later, having earlier been simply ''Vesi''. According to Wolfram, Visigoths means "the Good" or "the Noble" Goths, while Ostrogoths means "Goths of the rising sun" or "Goths glorified by the rising sun", i.e. "East Goths".{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=24-26}} The 6th century [[Frankish Table of Nations]] refers to [[Romanization (cultural)|Romanized]] Goths of Spain as ''[[Valagothi]]''.{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=24-26}}

In the 6th century, [[Procopius]] and [[Jordanes]] mention the ''Gautoi'' and ''Gauthigoths'' of Scandia. These were probably Geats.{{sfn|Rübekeil|2002|pp=603-604}}{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=19-24}} Jordanes also writes that the area settled by the Goths under king [[Berig]] was still called [[Gothiscandza]].{{sfn|Jordanes|1908|p=IV (25)}} This name means "Gothic-Scandia" or "Gothic coast".{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=19-24}} 

In the 8th century, the area of [[Septimania]] in the [[Carolingian Empire]] was known as ''[[Prince of Gothia|Gotia]]''. This area had earlier been under the control of [[Visigoths]]. From the 8th to 10th century, a people called the [[Gothogreeks]] are mentioned as living in the western coast of [[Asia Minor]]. It is often suggested that the Spanish region [[Catalonia]] is a compound of Gothia-Alania, but this is probably not the case.{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=19-24}}

From the 12th century, art and architecture supposed to be lacking refinement were dismissed as being "Gothic". From the 15th century, the name had been appropriated for specific styles which are now known as [[Gothic art]] and [[Gothic architecture]].{{sfn|Homan|2006|p=49}}

In the [[Russian Empire]], the [[Lithuanians]] would refer to [[Russians]] pejoratively by the name ''Gudas'' (i.e. ''Gudes''). This name is attested from the 16th century but is believed to be very old. Linguists have suggested that this is a vernacular name of the Goths. Connections have been proposed between this name and [[Gdynia]] and [[Gdańsk]], but this is uncertain.{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=19-24}}

In the early twentieth century, the Danish philologist [[Gudmund Schütte]] advocated renaming the [[Germanic peoples]] to ''Gothonic peoples'', because he considered the name of the Goths the earliest recorded Germanic ethnonym.{{sfn|Schütte|1912|pp=69-98}}

The Gothic name survives in the names of Götaland and [[Gotland]], which according to Wolfram are "actual Gothic-Gautic names".{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=19-24}} In [[Spanish language|Spanish]] the Gothic name survives in the word ''godo'', meaning 'noble' or 'rich'.{{sfn|Scardigli|2002|p=557}} In the Canary Islands, Chile, Bolivia, Cuba and Ecuador, it is or has been a pejorative for the [[Peninsulares]] (coming from the Spanish part of the Iberian Peninsula),<ref name="RAE">{{cite book |title=Diccionario de la lengua española |date=2019 |publisher=Real Academia Española, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española |edition=electrónica 23.3 |url=https://dle.rae.es/godo |access-date=12 August 2020 |language=es |chapter=godo}}</ref> who would claim to have [[limpieza de sangre|pure noble Gothic blood]] as opposed to the dubious pedigree of locals.

==Historical significance==
The origin and meaning of the name of the Goths is often considered of great significance to research on the origins of the Goths.{{sfn|Scardigli|2002|p=553}} On the basis of name evidence, [[Piergiuseppe Scardigli]] writes that is impossible to deny that there was a relationship between the Geats and the Goths.<ref>{{harvnb|Scardigli|2002|p=556}}. "That a relationship exists between [the Geats] and the ancient Goths can hardly be denied, but to explain it is difficult."</ref>

Based on the similarity between the Gothic name and those of the Gutes and Geats, scholars such as Wolfram have suggested that the Goths may have been an offshoot of either of these peoples.{{sfn|Rübekeil|2002|pp=603-604}}{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|p=23}} Wolfram means this not in a "biological" sense, but in the sense that "prestige bearing names" could be carried between groups of people.<ref>For an example of Wolfram's explanation see [https://books.google.com/books?id=HxOJFOYYqH4C&pg=PA616].</ref>

Anders Kaliff and [[Ludwig Rübekeil]] suggest that the Goths, Gutes and Geats were rather all at one point part of the same community of merchant-warriors active on both sides of the [[Baltic Sea]].{{sfn|Kaliff|2008|p=236}}{{sfn|Rübekeil|2002|pp=603-604}} 

Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon suggested that the name of the Goths, Gutes and Geats may originally have been applied to a northeastern Germanic group native to Scandinavia, who were distinguished from more southwesterly [[Celts|Celtic]]-influenced Germanic tribes known as ''Teutones''. Such a distinction might be reflected in the [[Æsir–Vanir War|conflicts]] between the [[Æsir]] and [[Vanir]] in [[Norse mythology]]. The Vanir were particularly revered in Sweden (see [[Yngvi]] and [[Freyr]]), while the [[Saga]]s record that Odin and the Æsir came to Scandinavia from the south. This supposed rift might be the reason why it has been difficult to document any common [[endonym]] among the early Germanic peoples.{{sfn|Kristinsson|2010|pp=144, 175}}

==Other names==
When mentioned by Greco-Roman scholars from the 3rd century AD, the Goths are frequently referred to as ''[[Scythians]]''.{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=28-29}} Already in the first half of the third century, [[Dexippos]], whose writing has only survived in fragments, referred to the Goths of his time as Scythians, although from the surviving fragments he did not necessarily intend to assert that they had common origins.{{sfn|Christensen|2002|p=233}}{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|p=28}} 

Starting in the 4th century authors such as [[Claudian]], [[Orosius]], [[Saint Jerome]] and [[Augustine of Hippo]] making a simpler equation between the Goths to the ''[[Getae]]'', a tradition followed later by Cassiodorus, Jordanes and [[Isidore of Seville]].{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=28-29}}{{sfn|Christensen|2002|p=51}}{{sfn|Isidore of Seville|1970}} However, modern historians have concluded that this equation is certainly incorrect.{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=28-29}}

In the late 4th century AD, [[Ambrose]] equated the Goths to ''[[Gog and Magog|Gog]]'' in the ''[[Book of Ezekiel]]'', who was associated with barbarians from the north.{{sfn|Wolfram|1990|pp=28-29}}{{sfn|Christensen|2002|p=44}} Isidore of Seville later suggested that this proposal must have been assumed by previous authors because of the similarity in sound between "Gog" and "Goth".{{sfn|Christensen|2002|pp=313–314}}

==See also==
* [[Gothic name]]
* [[Gothicism]]
* [[Götaland theory]]
* [[Name of the Franks]]
* [[Theodiscus]]
* [[Swedes (Germanic tribe)#Etymology]]
* [[Names of the Celts]]
* [[God (word)]]
* [[Gutian people]]
* [[Farfanes]]

==Notes and sources==
===Notes===
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===Ancient sources===
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* {{cite book |last=Isidore of Seville |author-link=Isidore of Seville |year=1970 |title=History of the Kings of the Goths, Vandals, and Suevi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8X_5GgAACAAJ |publisher=[[E.J. Brill]] }}
* {{cite book |last=Jordanes |author-link=Jordanes |translator-last1=Mierow |translator-first1=Charles C. |translator-link1=Charles Christopher Mierow |year=1908 |title=The Origins and Deeds of the Goths |url=https://people.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/jordgeti.html |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] }}
* {{cite book |last=Pliny |author-link=Pliny the Elder |translator-last1=Bostock |translator-first1=John |year=1855 |title=The Natural History |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plin.+Nat.+toc |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] }}
* {{cite book |last=Procopius |author-link=Procopius |translator-last1=Dewing |translator-first1=Henry Bronson |year=1914 |title=History of the Wars |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_the_Wars |publisher=[[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]] }}
* {{cite book |last=Ptolemy |author-link=Ptolemy |year=1932 |title=Geography |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/_Texts/Ptolemy/home.html |publisher=[[New York Public Library]] }}
* {{cite book |last=Strabo |author-link=Strabo |translator-last1=Jones |translator-first1=Horace Leonard |year=1924 |title=The Geography |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-eng1:7.1.3 |publisher=[[William Heinemann|W. Heinemann]] }}
* {{cite book |last=Tacitus |author-link=Tacitus |translator-last1=Church |translator-first1=Alfred John |translator-link1=Alfred John Church |translator-last2=Brodribb |translator-first2=William Jackson |year=1876a |title=Germania |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Germania_(Church_%26_Brodribb) }}
* {{cite book |last=Tacitus |author-link=Tacitus |translator-last1=Church |translator-first1=Alfred John |translator-link1=Alfred John Church |translator-last2=Brodribb |translator-first2=William Jackson |year=1876b |title=The Annals |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Annals_(Tacitus) }}
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===Modern sources===
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* {{cite journal |last=Andersson |first=Thorsten |author-link=Thorsten Andersson |year=1996 |title=Göter, Goter, Gutar |trans-title=Geats, Goths, Gutes |url=http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A46735&dswid=-340 |journal=[[:sv:Namn och Bygd|Namn og Bygd]] |language=sv |volume=84 |pages=5–21 |issn=0077-2704 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Andersson |first1=Thorsten |author-link1=Thorsten Andersson |year=1998b |chapter=Goten: § 1. Namenkundliches |chapter-url=https://db.degruyter.com/view/GAO/RGA_2029 |editor-last=Beck |editor-first=Heinrich |editor-link=:de:Heinrich Beck (Philologe) |editor-last2=Steuer |editor-first2=Heiko |editor-link2=:de:Heiko Steuer |editor-last3=Timpe |editor-first3=Dieter |editor-link3=:de:Dieter Timpe |title=Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bcwfZW_soyMC |language=de |volume=12 |publisher=[[De Gruyter]] |pages=402–403 |isbn=3-11-016227-X }}
* {{cite book |last1=Brink |first1=Stefan |author-link1=Stefan Brink |date=2002 |chapter=Sociolinguistic Perspectives And Language Contact In Proto-Nordic |editor1-last=Bandle |editor1-first=Oskar |editor1-link=:de:Oskar Bandle |title=The Nordic Languages |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RqkBXIJkkuEC |volume=1 |publisher=[[Walter de Gruyter]] |pages=685–690 |isbn=9783110148763 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Brink |first1=Stefan |author-link1=Stefan Brink |year=2008 |chapter=People and Land in Early Scandinavia |editor1-last=Garipzanov |editor1-first=Ildar H. |editor2-last=Geary |editor2-first=Patrick J. |editor2-link=Patrick J. Geary |editor3-last=Urbańczyk |editor3-first=Przemysław |editor3-link=:pl:Przemysław Urbańczyk |title=Franks, Northmen, and Slavs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4dUWAQAAIAAJ |series=Cursor Mundi |volume=5 |publisher=[[Brepols|ISD]] |pages=87–112 |isbn=9782503526157 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Christensen |first1=Arne Søby |author-link1=Arne Søby Christensen |translator-last1=Flegal |translator-first1=Heidi |year=2002 |title=Cassiodorus, Jordanes and the History of the Goths: Studies in a Migration Myth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AcLDHOqOt4cC |publisher=[[Museum Tusculanum Press]] |isbn=87-7289-7104 }}
* {{Cite book|last=de Vries|first=Jan|title=Altnordisches Etymologisches Worterbuch|publisher=Brill|year=1962|isbn=978-90-04-05436-3|edition=1977|author-link=Jan de Vries (philologist)}}
* {{cite book |last=Heather |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Heather |year=1998 |title=The Goths |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eCf0Tjg0BukC |publisher=[[Blackwell Publishing]] |isbn=0-631-209-32-8 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Heather |first1=Peter |author-link1=Peter Heather |year=2010  |title=Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=suwVDAAAQBAJ  |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=9780199892266 }}
* {{cite book |last=Homan |first=Roger |year=2006 |title=The Art of the Sublime: Principles of Christian Art and Architecture |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K-UZMVXHU_QC |publisher=[[Ashgate Publishing]] |isbn=0754650731 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Heather |first1=Peter |author-link1=Peter Heather |date=2018 |chapter=Goths |chapter-url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198662778.001.0001/acref-9780198662778-e-2090? |editor1-last=Nicholson |editor1-first=Oliver |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A09WDwAAQBAJ |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |page=673 |isbn=9780191744457 |access-date=January 25, 2020 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Kaliff |first1=Anders |author-link1=Anders Kaliff |date=2008 |chapter=The Goths and Scandinavia |editor1-last=Biehl |editor1-first=P. F. |editor2-last=Rassamakin |editor2-first=Y. Ya. |title=Import and Imitation in Archaeology |url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/52159386/Import_and_Imitation_in_Archaeology_2008.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DBiehl_P._and_Yu._Rassamakin_eds_2008._Im.pdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A%2F20200304%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20200304T170951Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=355de635ccfc657545d564dfe0a3352cc9d4fd13c6b2b0b86e3501149ddb9069  |publisher=[[:de:Verlag Beier & Beran|Beier & Beran]] |pages=223–243 |isbn=978-3-937517-95-7 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200304171034/https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/52159386/Import_and_Imitation_in_Archaeology_2008.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DBiehl_P._and_Yu._Rassamakin_eds_2008._Im.pdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A%2F20200304%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20200304T170519Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=ab126e33c136a90a8776d3d89b9de03e0480cf60c09420e07537c3077835febc |archive-date=March 4, 2020 }}
* {{cite book |last=Kristinsson |first=Axel |year=2010 |title=Expansions: Competition and Conquest in Europe Since the Bronze Age |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9s2uzr47M-cC |publisher=[[:is:ReykjavíkurAkademían|ReykjavíkurAkademían]] |isbn=978-9979992219 }}
* {{cite book |last=Lehmann |first=Winfred Philipp |author-link=Winfred P. Lehmann |year=1986 |title=A Gothic Etymological Dictionary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=39UUAAAAIAAJ |publisher=[[Brill Publishers|BRILL]] |isbn=9004081763 }}
* {{Cite book |last=Orel |first=Vladimir E. |date=2003 |url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofgerman0000orel |title=A Handbook of Germanic Etymology |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-12875-0 |author-link=Vladimir Orel |url-access=registration}}
* {{cite book |last1=Rübekeil |first1=Ludwig |author-link1=Ludwig Rübekeil |date=2002 |chapter=Scandinavia In The Light of Ancient Tradition |editor1-last=Bandle |editor1-first=Oskar |editor1-link=:de:Oskar Bandle |title=The Nordic Languages |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RqkBXIJkkuEC |volume=1 |publisher=[[Walter de Gruyter]] |pages=593–604 |isbn=9783110148763 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Scardigli |first1=Piergiuseppe |author-link1=Piergiuseppe Scardigli |date=2002 |chapter=Nordic-Gothic linguistic relations |editor1-last=Bandle |editor1-first=Oskar |editor1-link=:de:Oskar Bandle |title=The Nordic Languages |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RqkBXIJkkuEC |volume=1 |publisher=[[Walter de Gruyter]] |pages=553–558 |isbn=9783110148763 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Schütte |first1=Gudmund |author-link1=Gudmund Schütte |date=December 1912 |title=Gotthonic Names |journal=Puclications of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study |publisher=[[Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study]] |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=69–98 |jstor=40914903 }}
* {{cite journal |last=Sprengling |first=Martin |year=1940 |title=Shahpuhr I, the Great on the Kaabah of Zoroaster (KZ) |journal=[[The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures]] |volume=57 |issue=4 |pages=341–429 |doi=10.1086/370585|s2cid=170471113 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Strid |first1=Jan Paul |author-link1=Jan Paul Strid |date=January 2010 |title=The Origin of the Goths from a Topolinguistic Perspective: A Short Proposal |journal=North-Western European Language Evolution |publisher=[[John Benjamins Publishing Company]] |volume=58 |issue=59 |pages=443–452 |doi=10.1075/nowele.58-59.16str |url=https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/nowele.58-59.16str}}
* {{cite book |last1=Strid |first1=Jan Paul |author-link1=Jan Paul Strid |year=2011 |chapter=Retracing the Goths |editor1-last=Kaliff |editor1-first=Anders |editor1-link=Anders Kaliff |editor2-last=Munkhammar |editor2-first=Lars |title=Wulfila 311-2011 |url=http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:668706/FULLTEXT01.pdf |publisher=[[:sv:Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis|Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis]] |pages=41–54 |isbn=9789155486648 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200305084737/http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:668706/FULLTEXT01.pdf |archive-date=March 5, 2020 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Wessén |first1=Elias |author-link1=Elias Wessén |date=1969 |title=Nordiska folkstammar och folknamn |trans-title=Nordic Tribes and Ethnonyms |url=http://samla.raa.se/xmlui/bitstream/handle/raa/2076/1969_014.pdf |journal=[[Fornvännen]] |language=sv |publisher=[[Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities]] |volume=14 |pages=14–36 }}
* {{cite book |last=Wolfram |first=Herwig |author-link=Herwig Wolfram |translator-last1=Dunlap |translator-first1=Thomas J. |year=1990 |title=History of the Goths |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xsQxcJvaLjAC |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |isbn=0520069838 }}
* {{cite book |last=Wolfram |first=Herwig |author-link=Herwig Wolfram |year=1997 |title=The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tOnQDfRU-poC |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |isbn=978-0520085114 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Wolfram |first1=Herwig |author-link1=Herwig Wolfram |year=2004 |chapter=Origo Gentis: The Literature of Germanic Origins |editor1-last=Murdoch |editor1-first=Brian |editor1-link=Brian O. Murdoch |editor2-last=Read |editor2-first=Malcolm |title=[[Early Germanic Literature and Culture]] |url= |publisher=[[Boydell & Brewer]] |pages=39–54 |isbn=157113199X }}
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==Further reading==
{{refbegin|20em}}
* {{cite book |last1=Andersson |first1=Thorsten |author-link1=Thorsten Andersson |year=1998a |chapter=Gøtar |trans-chapter=Geats |chapter-url=https://db.degruyter.com/view/GAO/RGA_1996 |editor-last=Beck |editor-first=Heinrich |editor-link=:de:Heinrich Beck (Philologe) |editor-last2=Steuer |editor-first2=Heiko |editor-link2=:de:Heiko Steuer |editor-last3=Timpe |editor-first3=Dieter |editor-link3=:de:Dieter Timpe |title=Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bcwfZW_soyMC |language=de |volume=12 |publisher=[[De Gruyter]] |pages=278–283 |isbn=3-11-016227-X }}
* {{cite journal |last=Andersson |first=Thorsten |author-link=Thorsten Andersson |year=2015 |title=Goter, gutar och götar |trans-title=Goths, Gutes and Geats |language=sv |url=http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A893488&dswid=7730 |journal=[[:sv:Namn och Bygd|Namn og Bygd]] |pages=125–127 |issn=0077-2704 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Collitz |first1=Hermann |author-link1=Hermann Collitz |date=1897 |title=Der Name der Goten bei Griechen und Römern |trans-title=The Name of the Goths Among Greeks and Romans |journal=[[Journal of English and Germanic Philology]] |language=de |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=220–238 |jstor=27698996 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Dickens |first1=Mark |date=2018 |chapter=Scythians |chapter-url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198662778.001.0001/acref-9780198662778-e-4250 |editor1-last=Nicholson |editor1-first=Oliver |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity |isbn=9780191744457 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A09WDwAAQBAJ |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |pages=1346–1347}}
* {{cite book |last=Hinds |first=Kathryn |year=2010 |title=Goths |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gUE_-6brtloC |publisher=[[Marshall Cavendish]] |isbn=978-0761445166 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Lottner |first1=C. |author-link1=:de:Carl Friedrich Lottner |date=1856 |title=Der name der Goten |trans-title=The Name of the Goths |journal=[[Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete des Deutschen, Griechischen und Lateinischen]] |language=de |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=153–155 |jstor=40844460 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Schütte |first1=Gudmund |author-link1=Gudmund Schütte |translator-last1=Young |translator-first1=Jean |year=1929 |chapter=§ 24. Derivation from 'Goths' |title=Our Forefathers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kRlaAQAAQBAJ |volume=1 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |pages=30–35 |isbn=978-1-107-67478-3 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Schütte |first1=Gudmund |author-link1=Gudmund Schütte |translator-last1=Young |translator-first1=Jean |year=1933 |chapter=B. §§ 116-127. The Gothic Branch: § 116. Name. |title=Our Forefathers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0R9aAQAAQBAJ |volume=2 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |pages=7–9 |isbn=978-1-10767723-4 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Strid |first1=Jan Paul |author-link1=Jan Paul Strid |year=2008 |chapter=De Origine Gothorum |chapter-url=http://arturasratkus.com/sites/default/files/biblioteka/gotisk_workshop_1.pdf#page=23 |editor-last=Bruus |editor-first=Mette |editor-last2=Lindberg |editor-first2=Carl-Erik |editor-last3=Nielsen |editor-first3=Hans Frede |title=Gotisk Workshop |trans-title=Gothic Workshop |url=http://arturasratkus.com/sites/default/files/biblioteka/gotisk_workshop_1.pdf |series=Mindre Skrifter |language=sv |volume=26 |publisher=Center for Middelalderstudier [[Syddansk Universitet]] |pages=23–35 |issn=1601-1899 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Vasmer |first1=Max |author-link1=Max Vasmer |date=1942 |title=Ein vandalischer Name der Goten |trans-title=A Vandalic Name of the Goths |journal=Studia Neophilologica |language=de |volume=14 |pages=132–134 |doi= 10.1080/00393274208586912}}
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