Gothic influence on Spanish language?

[michelsauvant]

Hello,
Unfortunatly,I don't have this book and...
I have a question regarding the word for "straw" in Spanish (balago). 
I looked on dictionnaries and I arrived at the following choice: 

1- Greacian words "pallo" or "paluno" introduced by Phoceans in 
theirs colonies (Nice, Antibes, Cannes, Marseille, Emporion) and 
becommind in Gallo-Roman Age the verb "ballo, ballare".
>From participial form "ballatum" the Wisigoths could have 
made "balago".

2-Wisigoths imported to Spain a word "palava(?)" coming from one 
language on the sides of Black Sea where they lived during a long 
time. (references Sanskrit "palaavah" = "straw"  and modern 
russian "palevyj" = "straw" and other slavic languages)
The word "palava (?)" could have been mutated in "balago" when 
wisigoths arrived in South of France and in Spain.

In South of France we had medieval terms "balagaire" 
meaning "sweeper". But I think that the first "sweeping" for 
a "balagaire" was, during wisigotic age, for separating grain from 
straw with a kind of broom. I found a village named Villa Balagari at 
the end of Wisigothic age.
 
Does anyone know if balago was introduced into the Spanish language 
by the Goths ? 
Or does anyone know if palava (?) could have been used around year 
350 by Goths when they were near Black Sea?

Michel SAUVANT



--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at ...> wrote:
>
> Just as an added note, there is a short passage summarizing Gothic  
> lexical influence on Spanish (within a section of a few pages on  
> early Germanic borrowings generally) in Ralph Penny's _A History 
of  
> the Spanish Language_.
> 
> Cheers,
> Carl
> 
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> http://www.carlaz.com/
>


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