[gothic-l] Re: gothic traces in the east?

[Francisc Czobor]

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, dirk at s... wrote:

>
> Hi Anthony,
>
> this scenario would have made it rather difficult for Gothic/Gepidic
> words to enter the Romanian language. Is it possbile that those
words
> of Germanic origin have been adopted at a much later time, following
> the inmigration of the so called 'Siebenbuerger Sachsen' (i.e.
> Transylvanian Saxons from Germany) to Transylvania from the 11th
> century?
>
> cheers
> Dirk

Dear Dirk,

as I mentioned in my message on Gothic/Gepidic words in Romanian
(no. 3271,) those words that I enumerated are the only words that are
rather Gothic or Gepidic than from the dialect of the Transylvanian
Saxons, which are more numerous.
Indeed, the acceptance of these words as Gothic/Gepidic would be an
evidence for the "continuity theory" in Dacia, but they could been
borrowed also south of Danube, from the Gothi Minores for instance.

Francisc

GUTANI WIHAILAG


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