[gothic-l] Ic. "Bill" & Relevance

[jdm314 at AOL.COM]

In a message dated Tue, 6 Jun 2000  8:22:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, David Salo <dsalo at softhome.net> writes:

<< 
   Well, if the Romans had cars, and called them "automobiles", (which they
certainly would not) then the Goths might have calqued an awkward form like
*silbagaggands; or they could have borrowed the word, doubtless as
*awtaumobilus, pl. *awtaumobileis, and then could have clipped it to
*bilus, pl. *bileis. >>

Note, however, that modern Latinists tend to use autocineta, and modern Greek uses auftokineto. I can't remember the length of that e though.


<<    "bíll" on the other hand, if an original Icelandic form, would
perhaps reflect *bîlaz or *bîliz = Go. *beils.
    I'd prefer *karrus to both. :) >>

As carrus (as well as currus) is a real Latin word, this is perfectly acceptable to me.

-JDM



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