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

[dirk at SMRA.CO.UK]

I was not aware of this faroese word  maeki for sword. This does seem 
to change things and makes a borrowing from Gothic into Slavic more 
likely. Thanks for the information.
Dirk


--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, "Svein Nestor" <NESTOR at s...> wrote:
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> From:           	dirk at s...
> 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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