[gothic-l] Re: Neil Acherson's Crimea (MYHA)

[Svein Nestor]

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From:           	"Philip Rusche" <ruschep at nevada.edu>
Date sent:      	Wed, 1 Nov 2000 02:57:19 -0800
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Subject:        	Re: [gothic-l] Re: Neil Acherson's Crimea (MYHA)

I have followed the discussion very superficially, so this may have 
been mentioned already: The Finnish word for sword is miekka. For 
the general discussion on borrowings from Slavic to Germanic and 
vice versa I want to point out that the Gothic verb plinsjan "to 
dance" most likely comes from Slavic. Russian has plyasat' "to 
dance" and plyaska "a dance".

Svein Nestor  


> There is also the very common OE word "maece".  And besides the Old Saxon
> word "maki" that was mentioned, there is also an ON "maekir". (All these
> have long vowels in the root syllables).
> 
> Philip Rusche
> 
> 
> >I was not aware of this faroese word  maeki for sword. This does seem
> >to change things and makes a borrowing from Gothic into Slavic more
> >likely. Thanks for the information.
> >Dirk
> 
> >>
> >> Dirk is not quite right as there is a Faroese word mæki, which
> >> means "sword".
> >>
> >> Svein Nestor
> 
> 
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