More Neologisms

[brianbeck_au]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Francisc Czobor" <fericzobor at y...> 
wrote:
> glezamahts is a loan translation into Gothic of the Icelandic word 
> rafmagn "electricity", literally "amber's power" (cf. Greek 
> elektron "amber").
> mahts "power" is an attested Gothic word;
> *gleza- "amber", is not attested, but reconstructed from the Common 
> Germanic root *glesa-/gleza-, with the original meanig "amber" but 
> which gave words like German Glas, English glass.
>
It is indirectly attested in Tacitus' Germania:
"....sucinum, quod ipsi glesum vocant", "...amber, which they 
themselves (i.e. the Germans) call 'glesum'".
Cheers,
Brian




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