winja

[Marja Erwin]

On Mar 30, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Ingemar Nordgren wrote:
> Since we have the word 'vini' in Sw. and Norw. for pasture I am  
> wondering wether Northgermanic, as I have allways beleived, is  
> closer connected to Gothic than Westgermanic. Thats the main reson.  
> I am involved in a discussion and I have to know what I talk about  
> even if I am not a linguists. Ther are as you know a lot of words  
> for pastue like Weide, Wiese et c. Thy pasture is in Sw. gennerally  
> 'beta', to grass, which must be connected with 'bite'. The use by  
> Wulfila of certain words hence makes a confusion.
>
> Hope you understand the problem!
> Thank yoou for the help.
> Ingemar
>

I suspect all of us have wondered about that.

Another question: how could we determine what languages pre-existed  
Gothic north of the Danube? On historical grounds we can assume some  
Alanic language, and either Dacian or a Danubian Latin dialect. Slavic  
languages are also possible. But how, for example, would we detect an  
earlier Germanic substrate, perhaps Bastarnaean?

Marja Erwin
marja-e at riseup.net




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