[gothic-l] Hlaford

[Егоров Владимир]

For reflection.
The English word "loaf" has two meanings "bread" and "head" (slang).
In Slavic languages, "head" is "glava" (Czechic, Russian...)
that seems a cognate to the Gothic "hlaifs". But "glava", in turn,
has also the meaning leader, chief.

Vladimir


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About the Gothic word for Lord:

(I'm sorry I forgot about this question, which was raised back in July)

The word used by Wulfila was "frauja". The English word is a compound whose
first element is "loaf". This has a cognate "hlaifs" in Gothic, used to mean
bread. I do not know whether the Anglo-Saxon "ord", which was the other half of
the compound, has any known Gothic counterpart. Lehmann's dictionary seems to
suggest not.

Gerry T.






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