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

[Francisc Czobor]

Another Slavic word borrowed by Gothic is "bala" = "white horse",
from O.Sl. belu "white"

Francisc

GUTANI WIHAILAG

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, "Svein Nestor" <NESTOR at s...> wrote:
> To:             	<gothic-l at egroups.com>
> From:           	"Philip Rusche" <ruschep at n...>
> Date sent:      	Wed, 1 Nov 2000 02:57:19 -0800
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> Subject:        	Re: [gothic-l] Re: Neil Acherson's Crimea
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>
> I have followed the discussion very superficially, so this may have
> been mentioned already: The Finnish word for sword is miekka. For
> the general discussion on borrowings from Slavic to Germanic and
> vice versa I want to point out that the Gothic verb plinsjan "to
> dance" most likely comes from Slavic. Russian has plyasat' "to
> dance" and plyaska "a dance".
>
> Svein Nestor
>


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