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

[Francisc Czobor]

As I wrote in a post some days ago, there are also other words in
Busbecq's list that are rather Gothic than High or Low German, for
instance:
fyder "four" (Go. fidwor)
mine "moon" (Go. mena)
myha "sword" (Go. mekeis)

Fragkisks

GUTANI WIHAILAG

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, Anthony.Appleyard at u... wrote:
> --- In gothic-l at egroups.com, dirk at s... wrote:
> > I read Vasiliev's book on the Crimean Goths. ... Vasiliev,
> > however, argues that the Gothic language died out sometime in the
> > high middle ages (11th Century if I recall correctly ...
>
> I seem to remember that one recorded Crimean Gothic word is {ada}
> = "egg". The `d' in it looks specifically Gothic, unless the word
can
> be traced to some non-Germanic language.
>
> P.S. Who is in charge of gutiska at egroups.com? Its information page
> doesn't seem to say. Giuseppe Pagliarulo / Josef Strawarila sent its
> first message in, but is he that list's controller?


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