[gothic-l] Re: Neil Acherson's Crimea (MYHA)

[Francisc Czobor]

I think that the Russian metsh' "sword" is of Gothic origin (there are
 a lot of Gothic or other Old Germanic loanwords in the Slavic
languages). But the Crimean myha, with the evolution long [e] > long
[i] and k > h (facts that occure also in other Crimean Gothic words),
looks rather like a regular evolution of Go. mekeis than a borrowing
from Russian.

Francisc

GUTANI WIHAILAG


--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, dirk at s... wrote:
> For supposedly Crimean Gothic myha = sword (Gothic, mekeis) a slavic
> origin could be possible. In Russian a sword is called metsh, which
> does sound similar to myha.
> Dirk
>



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