Use of Gothic language in Spain

[Michael Erwin]

On 30 Jul 2007, at 10:18, llama_nom wrote:

> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans at ...> wrote:
> >
<snip>
> > The city of Burgos – is it a Gothic name (baurgs)?
>
> I always assumed so. It's the one that immediately leaps out at you
> when you look at a map. Are there smaller places with the same name
> too? A number of websites mention the Gothic origin of the name, but
> I don't know whether any cite scholarly sources. The citation of
> Wright's primer by the Wikipedia article may just be to confirm the
> form of the Gothic word, rather than back up its identification as the
> origin of the Spanish placename. One person speculates in a forum
> that this word might have been adopted already into Latin as a naming
> element.
>
> LN
I think it more likely that Gothic baurgs comes from Latin burgus,  
than vice-versa, from Greek either way.

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