[gothic-l] Re: Gothic, Yiddish and High German

[llama_nom]

Hi Tom,

I've heard this idea suggested, and I don't know enough about the 
history to rule out the possibility of later immigrants, but purely 
in linguistic terms the language we call "Crimean Gothic"--whatever 
its relationship to the Gothic of the 4th century bible translation--
must have been separated from the North and West Germanic dialects 
from a very early time (eg. the early Migration Era).  Evidence for 
this:

ado "egg", shows the development jj > dd, otherwise known only from 
Biblical Gothic.

mine "moon", criten "cry".  In North and West Germanic this sound 
was lowered, E: > æ: > a:.  Whereas in Gothic it was increasingly 
raised e: > i:, as can be seen from the Gothic Bible, and spelling 
of East Gmc. names by Roman writers.

schuos "bride" (probably miswritten for 'schnos').  In North and 
West Germanic the old sound /z/ remained voiced and became 
rhoticised, ultimately merging with /r/, cf. OE snoru, ON 
snør "daughter-in-law".  In Gothic /z/ remained, or was devoiced at 
the end of a word.

Llama Nom



--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, macmaster at r... wrote:
> Is there any possibility - from a linguistic perspective - that the
> Crimean Goths might not be the descendants of Greutungian Goths 
but might,
> instead, be later Germanic immigrants to the region who adopted 
the name
> of the people who had preceded them in the same region?
> 
> Tom MacMaster





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