[gothic-l] Re: The Language of the Goths

[faltin2001]

--- In gothic-l at y..., "Lada" <smntpk at p...> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stephen Mark Carey <smcarey at a...>
> To: <gothic-l at y...>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 6:46 PM
> Subject: [gothic-l] The Language of the Goths
>
>
> >
> > > in a clearly defined and identified area of northern Poland and
> > > nowhere else. BTW, even the latest Brockhaus entry on the Goths
has
> > > now abandoned the old thesis of a Scandinavian origin of the
Goths.
> > >
> > > Dirk
> >
> >
> > Where does the linguistic evidence fall in this regard. Is there
a heavy
> > Gothic influence on Polish -- or are you dealing with "German"
areas of
> > Poland -- how about gothic influence on Old Prussian -- or does
your
> > theory force one to reconsider whether the Gothic Language was
actually
> > spoken by the "Goths"?
> >
> >     I think the language influenced must have been ment to Old
High
> German.


Hi,

I am not a linguist, but as far as I know the only west Germanic
language/dialect that borrowed a number of words from Gothic is
Bavarian. Most of the Gothic words in Bavarian are detectable only or
among others by the fact that they are exclusive to Bavarian.




It does contain some words which can be soundly suspected to have
> come through Gothic. Beside that Old High German shares with Gothic
some
> inherited forms it does not with most other Germanic languages.
>       Otherwise speakers, of the west - slavic dialect, which would
become
> Polish did not live anywhere nearby, at the time


Agreed
Cheers,
Dirk



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