[gothic-l] Gothic 'jah'

[faltin2001]

Hello all,

I was wondering about the Gothic word 'jah' for 'and'. In most
Germanic languages this seems to be based on a different word. I.e.
German: und/auch, English: and, Swedish: och/samt, Danish: og, Dutch
en,  etc. The only Germanic dialect were I encountered a similar word
is a  Ostfalian sub-dialect of Lower Saxon which uses a word sounding
like 'jach' for 'and'. I always assumed that this was a contraction
of 'ja auch', but perhaps this originates from the same common
Germanic word as the Gothic 'jah'?

Cheers
Dirk



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