G.W. Dasent and C. Haughton Gill in an 1872 issue of The Journal of the Society of Arts offer an etymology of “Cagot” as being “a corruption of Cams Golhicus, ’dog of a Goth,’ [which] was applied to the descendants of the warriors of the great Alaric, who once had filled all southern Europe.”

Is “Cams Golhicus” a typographical misreading of “Canis Gothicus”?