Airmanagild
Built from Gothic elements reconstructed as airmans, "great, mighty", and gild, "payment, tribute", read together as something like "great tribute".
Meaning and origin
Airmanagild is not a spelling that survives in any Gothic writing; scholars have built it by comparing Gothic with related Germanic languages, since the one sizeable Gothic text to survive, Bishop Wulfila's Bible…
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