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[matthew carver]

hails greg-

It may be possible. The horse-riding tribes of the steppes, Scythians
and Sarmations seem to have loaned a few words to germanic languages in
general, or perhaps they came through Gothic (s.t. via Celtic, as marah-
'horse', cf. Green, Language & History...): paida 'leather coat' (< ?
riding coat), path- 'path (orig. a specific 'Scythian' path?), faths
'leader' (exhibiting the decimal model of the Persian/Iranian military
grouping). In Green, p. 81: "the possible presence of Gothic (or Gepid)
loanwords in Rumanian." (ref.: Bierbrauer [1994], 130. Diculescu [1921],
420ff. et al.)

-matthew


On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 04:33 PM, greg scaff wrote:

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> Hails,
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> My thanks go to Dirk, Vladimir, Oscar, and of course Matthew for your
> interest and  insightful comments re: "balan". I guess another question
> would be how accurate Procopius was in rendering a foreign word. Oh
> well.  I find it compelling  that it means the same in Romania today,or
> has the same form, as Francisc says,  and wonder if their is any
> possible actual connection between the Romanian  form and the  possible
> Gothic?
>
>                                           cheers,
>
>                                                    Greg
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