[gothic-l] Re: gothic traces in the east?

[dirk at SMRA.CO.UK]

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, "Anthony Appleyard" <MCLSSAA2 at f...>
wrote:
>   "Francisc Czobor" <czobor at c...> wrote:-
> > ... The Albanians are different from the Romanians (Vlachs),
> > although their languages share a common Thracian substratum.
>
> I thought that:-
>   Albanian was descended from Illyrian rather than Thracian.
>   The Vlachs are descended from Illyrians who were Latinized in
language but
> kept some Illyrian words in such areas as mountain shepherding.
>   What is now Rumania was almost completely depopulated by invading
tribes of
> steppe nomads from the east after the Roman Empire broke up, and it
was
> gradually repopulated later by Vlachs, and those became the modern
Rumanians.

Hi Anthony,

this scenario would have made it rather difficult for Gothic/Gepidic
words to enter the Romanian language. Is it possbile that those words
of Germanic origin have been adopted at a much later time, following
the inmigration of the so called 'Siebenbuerger Sachsen' (i.e.
Transylvanian Saxons from Germany) to Transylvania from the 11th
century?

cheers
Dirk


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