[gothic-l] Re: kusanata (Jordanes in Gothic)

[faltin2001]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell at o...> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Vladimir,
>
> That's interesting.  The nominative singular of Gothic *aujom
> (dat.pl.) would be *auja (feminine jo-stem).  The actualy form in
> Jordanes is Oium/Ojum.  Germanic cognates include:
>
> OIc. ey
> OFris. ey
> Langobardic *auja
> OE ieg (survives in MnE island, with spelling influenced by the
> unrelated French isle)




See also modern German Eiland = Insel = island.

However, I thought that Jordanes' Oium is linked with modern German
Heim, i.e. home.


Cheers
Dirk






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