[gothic-l] textbooks

[Manuel Gutierrez Algaba]

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On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, M. Carver wrote:
> 
> I thought I would begin sharing some borrowings of Gothic words into Romance
> languages. Here I give you A-F (by Gothic words) that have been borrowed
> into such languages as Provencal (Pv), French (Fr), Basque, Old French
> (OFr), Spanish (Sp), Portuguese (Pt), Catalan (Ct), Italian (It), Byzantine
> Greek (Byz), Montenegran (Mont), and Breton (Br) and probably some I forgot.
> I'll try to give you new letters of the alphabet regularly every month or
> so.

Well, sometimes , it may happen Gothic-->French-->Spanish

> 
> PS I apologize in advance for the messy formatting.
> 
> agatja    magpie    agasa Pv; agace Fr

We have "agasajar", to give gifts , to honour a guest. Prob. from
gothic. agasajo, too

> aifrs    terrible    afre OFr; afru Cors; afro OBr

We have "cafre" , a terrible person, but it's from another origin!

> aiskon    ask    assar Mont; eskatu Bas;

Aizk means stone in Basque, I think. Being Basq a Stone Age language
I don't think their _key_word to be from outside origin.

> alisna    awl    lesina It; alesne OFr; alesna Prov, Sp

We have also "alosno", I think is a tree.

> aliza    alder    aleso Sp
> anahaspan    wind up    annaspare It

We have "aspavientos" which is big exagerated movements and cries 
and load voices done by someone.

> bagks    bench    banco It; banc Fr, Pv, Ct; banco Sp, Pt

gk sounds like a nk or like a ng, here ?

> bala    blazed horse    ba¹las Byz

We have "bala" which is "bullet", a damned fast thing.

> barsiks    perch (a fish)    perseg Ct

We have a "perca", which is a fish too.

> baursti    bristle, brush    bruza Sp; broca Pt

We have "broca" too, a "broca" is a cylinder shaped piece of iron,
which is the point in a pistol that makes the broca turns so you
can make holes in the walls.

> bautan    beat    buttar It

We have "botar", "botar un balon" is to make a ball bounce,
botar means "kick" too.

> bazjan    make bare, weaken    basir Poit; sbasire It

We have "bajar", which means "go down". Yo bajo las escaleras=
I go down the stairs.

> bigardio    garden    caio breialo Gall

We have "jardin"

> bilisa    henbane (a plant)    belsa Pv; velesa Sp

We have "embelesar", which is to enchant , to do a bit of 
witchery, is a henbane a magical plant ??

> blagks    white, shining    bianco It
We have "blanco"

> blas-    torch, flame    blasir Pv

We have "blason", "blason" is the cote d arms, The shield that
represents the heraldy of a noble family.

> bramjan    roar    bramire It

We have "bramar"

> brands    sword    brando It; brant OFr; bran Pv; brandir Fr, Pv

We have "blandir", which is "to move the sword"

> brustjan    bud    brostar Ct
> bruton    bud    brotar Pv

We have "brotar", a plant "brota" from the soil.

> bruzdon    embroider    brustare It; brosder OFr; broidar Pv; brozlar Gal

We have "embrollo"== mess 

> falda    fold    falda It; fauda Pv; falda Ct, Pt
Spanish too, "falda"==skirt

Why don't you put such a list in a web page?

BTW, I've seen David's  course of gothic. Gothic seems very 
easy, specially verb vocabulary. Declinations are other story...


Regards/Saludos
Manolo
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