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

[Svein Nestor]

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From:           	dirk at smra.co.uk
Date sent:      	Wed, 01 Nov 2000 10:16:44 -0000
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Subject:        	[gothic-l] Re: Neil Acherson's Crimea (MYHA)



Dirk is not quite right as there is a Faroese word mæki, which 
means "sword".

Svein Nestor 


> This proposition would be supported by the fact that the Russian word 
> for helmet, 'shlem' (I hope my transliteration is vaguely correct) is 
> likely of Germanic origin. See German 'Helm'. On the other hand it 
> worries my a bit that a word similar to mekeis or myha does not seem 
> to appear in other Germanic languages for sword, and given that 
> according to Vernadsky the Anti were famous for their swords (Beowulf 
> quote) a borrowing into the Gothic language should be considered.
> 
> Dirk
> 
> 
> 
> --- In gothic-l at egroups.com, "Francisc Czobor" <czobor at c...> wrote:
> > 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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