[gothic-l] Re: "Plinsjan" as a loan word from Old Slavic

[Francisc Czobor]

--- In gothic-l at y..., "Le Bateman" <LeBateman at N...> wrote:
> Was wondering why the Goths did not have a word similar to Modern
German
> Tanzen.
> Le
>

It's very simple. The Modern German tanzen, like similar words in
other European languages (English dance, ME dauncen, Hugarian tancol,
Romanian dansa, etc.) comes from Old French danser. In old Germanic
languages, words similar to Gothic laikan "to leap (of joy)" had also
the meaning "to dance".

Francisc


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