[gothic-l] Re: Gothic in spanish: GUANTE

[llama_nom]

http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/svetym/1178.html

Unfortunately the scanned page is refusing to download to my computer
at the moment, but at least there's a slightly dodgy ORC text to be
going on with.



--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Fredrik" <gadrauhts at h...> wrote:
>
> There's a word in spanish that is 'guante' which i think means
> something like 'glove'. Could this be a loan from gothic or do some
> one know it's origin?
> I haven't seen any word in gothic similar to guante with the same
> meaning but the word is to smililar to the swedish 'vante' to be a
> coincidence. 'Vante' is a type of thin glove.
> Isn't it common that germanic initial w becomes gu in roman
languages?
> In that case guante would come from wante or something like that...





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