To be a man's name it would have to be a contraction of Junianus, of a sort of contraction which is otherwise unattested. |
The diversification of the parent language into the attested branches of daughter languages is historically unattested. |
Note that those like Mack, who can be awarded respect for their hypotheses of documents otherwise unattested, are not at an advantage over our thesis. |
On the other hand, we've learned how to reconstruct unattested proto-languages from their attested descendants and how to work out the family tree of related languages. |
Yet not one of the names in this list of nationsis historically unattested, not even that of the unlikely-sounding Gepids. |
This bespeaks a congruence that belies the alleged dichotomy, which Gerdmar again finds unattested in specific underlying data. |