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

[dirk at SMRA.CO.UK]

For supposedly Crimean Gothic myha = sword (Gothic, mekeis) a slavic
origin could be possible. In Russian a sword is called metsh, which
does sound similar to myha.
Dirk

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, "Francisc Czobor" <czobor at c...> wrote:
> 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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