[gothic-l] Re: fairhwus & hliftus

[brianbeck_au]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Francisc Czobor" <fericzobor at y...>
wrote:
> The Gothic word hliftus "thief" has no equivalent (as far as I
know)
> in other Germanic languages. Together with the verb hlifan "to
steal"
> it comes from the IE root klep- "to steal", whence also Greek
> kleptein "to steal", klepte:s "thief" (> cleptomania!), Lat.
> clepere "to steal".
> German Dieb / English thief have also a Gothic equivalent: thiubs /
> thiufs.

Hi,
What about the English "lift" in the sense of "to steal", e.g. shop-
lifting.  This derives from the OE. hliftan, to steal.



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