Reconstructions of contemporary Gothic words

llama_nom 600cell at OE.ECLIPSE.CO.UK
Mon Aug 15 11:10:31 UTC 2005


--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "thiudans" <thiudans at y...> wrote:
> Köbler:
> 
> "walh-s, got., Adj. (a): nhd. welsch, ausländisch; ne. foreign; Vw.:
> s. *wala (1); Q.: PN, Qualatrûdi, HhGEW 133; E.: s. germ. *walahaz,
> M., Kelte, Welscher, Fremder."
> 
> I suppose a substantivized Walhaland or Walhane Land would be a more
> Gothic construction than Walhiskaland or something along those lines.


Other alternatives:

*Walhaland, cf. ON Valland
ana Walh(a)þiudai, cf. Go. ana Gutþiudai
ana Walham, cf. OE on Wealum, on Eastenglum, etc.

The last two are literally "among the Welsh/Gothic people", but 
applied by extention to the place where they lived.





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