[gothic-l] Re: Question: Gothic words in non-gothic languages

[dirk at SMRA.CO.UK]

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, "Francisc Czobor" <czobor at c...> wrote:
> I have already posted a message on the subject of Gothic loanwords 
in 
> Bavarian (no. 2225, Jun 21, 2000.
> I send now that information again:
> 
Hello Francisc,

I missed your earlier posting. Thank you very much for posting it 
again, that is extremely interesting.

(snip)

> source, but I can not remember now where, I have read something 
> similar: after the defeat of the Ostrogoths in Italy, some of their 
> remnants migrated northwards and participated in the ethnogenesis of 
> the Bavarian people, giving them some words and the legend of 
> Theodoric the Great (which became Dietrich von Bern in the German 
> mediaeval epic).

I think  Wilfried Menghin   argued along similar lines in 
"Frühgeschichte Bayerns:   Römer und Germanen, Baiern und Schwaben, 
Franken und Slawen",  Stuttgart   K. Theiss   c1990

Menghin suggested that the increase in the occurance of Ostrogothic 
coin hoards and single finds in Bavaria and Alamannia in the mid 6th 
century may indicate that parts of the Ostrogoths may have 
ventured north to their former allies the Alamanni.

(snip)


One additional word was suggested in Hervig Wolfram's book "Rom und 
die Germanen". Wolfram gives the gothic word 'haimothli' meaning 
inherited land (home) and the Bavarian word 'hoamotl' for farm stet, 
also realted to modern German 'heimat' meaning homeland. 



Thanks again for your help

cheers
Dirk


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