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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 8073114, member: 84905&quot;]First, linguistically Germans and Goths are the same, both groups spoke Germanic languages. The Goths spoke an East Germanic language in contrast to North and West-Germanic. The whole group of East Germanic is now extinct.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, Latin V and Germanic W underwent similar transformations. Latin V started out as a U-sound (in classical Latin). Hence, VICTORIA was pronounced U-ICTORIA, VENVS = U-ENUS. In late antiquity V shifted away from U to modern V/W. When the OP coin was made, Latin V had already shifted to V/W, which is why a different letter (ligature VV) was used to convey the true sound of Witiges&#039; name (i.e. Uitiges)</p><p><br /></p><p>The German letter W later underwent the same transformation as Latin V, i.e. from U to V/W. In Old Saxon (around AD 800) the god Wodan is still written Uodan (Uoden)*. Only Anglo-Saxon (English) retained the original W-U, which is why W is actually called &quot;double-U&quot; and not &quot;double-V&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, congratulations to the nice Witiges-Deka.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>* In North Germanic the initial U was dropped altogether which resulted in the name Oden/Odin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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