Etymologie gothique pour "strava" ?

[ualarauans]

Jam-mis thugkeith "strawa" haldis us Winithe nih Gutane brunnin 
urrinnan. Ith thannu tho sunjon aitwmulaugia this waurdis ussokjan 
wileima, ni ufarmunnoma thatei qithan was bi silbahliuth swllabeins 
thizos frumeins – duhve strawa nih *sutrawa? Mahtu ist ei jah 
Winithos in garazdja ize sinteinamma hlaiwamat hailagana analeiko 
afar strawein namnidedun – winithisko *pro-sterti "straujan"(insaihv 
du thamma samin waurda lateinisko sterno:streui, krekisko STRWNNYMI 
jas-swa framis). At Attilins reikja theihandin, than Austragutans 
thatuh haiti us muntha winithiskaize "ga-Hune" andhausidedun, an tho 
innumein ustaiknein thairhsaihvan jah swesamma waurda "straujan" 
gagaleikon ni mahtedun? Jabai nu raihtaba stauida, was "strawa" bi 
sunjai waurd huniskata, thatist gamainjata allaim "Hunim" jaththe 
gutisko jaththe winithisko (jaththe nauh hve) rodjandam.

I too would prefer Slavic, not Gothic, origin of "strava". But when 
searching its true etymology I guess we shouldn't totally neglect 
the said phonetic problem in the first syllable. To avoid this 
difficulty, could it be possible to assume that the Slavs in their 
daily speech derived the word for "funeral meal" from the same IE 
stem as is in Gothic straujan? When the East Goths being subjects of 
our little daddy noticed this term in the language of their Slavic 
fellow "Huns", couldn't they perceive its semantic form and adopt it 
mindfully as cognate to their own word "straujan"? If that be right, 
then strava is truly a Hunnish word, in the sense it was common to 
at least two groups of "Huns" irrespective of their particular 
mother tongue – Gothic or Slavic (or maybe else more).

P.S. Mattathiau thiudana awiliuth mein mikilata faur skeirein 
Reikihardaus aipistauleins thizos Fragkiskons! (I'm still not that 
good in French but I am working on it)

P.P.S. Did someone see B. Arnim's Bemerkungen zum Hunnischen (ZSPh. 
1936, Bd. 13) where he argues that there are some Turkic words with 
the same base (?) and similar "funeral" semantics?

P....S. Excuse my corrupted Gothic version prefacing a no less 
corrupted English – just to make my trivial ideas look little more 
pretentious OK

Ualarauans


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