LL-L "Etymology" 2005.02.15 (02) [E]

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From: Arthur Jones <arthurobin2002 at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2005.02.14


Hi folks,

Ron, if'n nawt else, ye larn us humility!
Many thanks indeed for the strict analysis of Goth. "skatts" and diminutive
"skattila" which I misspelled as "skattula". I agree with your problem of
preaspiration in that situation, although we have to accept Wulfila's
orthography and approximated pronunciations as he was thoroughly hellenized,
among other things.

I, too, would sooner have expected the erosive preaspiration process if the
central vowel had been a bit more frontal, e.g., "skaettila". As to the
intermediary donor language, we could assume that OHG-speaking mercenaries
in Theodoric's armies would have been exposed to both Gothic and to vulgate
Latin in one transitional form or another. Soldiers have a way of
communicating in their own sort of lingua franca.

The voyage from "skattila" to "Schachtel" may be one merely of parallels,
like hulls on a catamaran. Or, the process may have been like the Dutch
"Scheveningen", famously pronounced by High German speakers as approx.
"shefeningen".

As to the fascinating "gift/geva" discussion, some cynical northern Italian
friends of ours, who speak Zeneize at home, report that they think the
French "cadeau" actually began as a form of "caduta", or "fallen". The slur
here is that French presents would have "fallen" off the back of a
truck/lorry, or, centuries ago, fallen off the back of a passing donkey
cart.

Hei.

Arthur

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