Gepidic *skima?

[dciurchea]

Perhaps Romanian "spaima" would help: it might mean fear; mainly 
after having an intense  surprise; the discharge of adrenalin after 
a surprise would be a good description of the term; it is quite 
common, somewhat similar to "sperietura".
 

but  --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Walhahrabns allans Walhakunnandans hailans wisan weneith!
> 
> Wiljau fraihnan izwis, gamathljans liubans, jau mahteig izwis 
> thugkjai, us sumamma (jath-thanuh hvileikamma?) waurde razdos 
> austrawalhiskaizos thizos nu bruhtons thata gibidisko waurd *skima 
> aftragasatjan? Waurd jainata skulda, thande insahtim thaimei 
> gamotida galaubjau, "skaduleikan", "frisaht unhulthons" jah 
> silban "Drakilan thana blothdrugkjan" ustaiknjan. Jabai nu ita 
> mith "niuja-bigitanaim" waurdam rahnjaima, hvaiwa bi biuhtja kreka-
> gutiskamma anameljaidau - *skima aiththau *skeima aiththau jan-
nauh 
> hve? Ith taujandans swa ni ufarmunnoma ei Wulfila sa swera 
> aipiskaupus jah Gutthiudos frumists daupjands (gawairthi mith 
imma) 
> thizuh waurdis ("skeimam") in aiwaggeljon thairh Iohannen 
(.ih.:.g.) 
> swe mith "haizam" samanamnjandins bruhta.
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I've got a question to the experts in Romanian here. Somewhere I 
saw 
> a reconstructed Gepidic *skima, based on an East-Germanic loanword 
> into Romanian and meaning smth like "ghost", "specter" or similar 
> (it was translated into German as "Schattengestalt", as far as I 
> remember). Is it Rom. stima (if it's [stsima], with a "comma" 
under 
> the -t- < palatalized [k]), mentioned in #8951 by Andrei Stirbu? 
> What does it mean in today's Romanian, I wonder? And what could 
its 
> probable reconstruction in written Gothic be like? - *skima M./F. 
or 
> *skeima M./F., the latter being attested in Wulfila's translation 
> (Dat. Pl. skeimam in Joh. 18:3) for "lantern" or "torch", 
synonymous 
> with haizam (ibidem)?
> 
> Ualarauans
>






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