Loaned names, placenames, peoples' names in actual Gothic? (was Re: Antes?)

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 10/07/2006 07:27, ualarauans wrote:
> P.S. Having written a draft of this I found ON Harvadhafjoell < 
> early Grm. *xarfath- < original karpat- mentioned in Carl Edlund 
> Anderson's Ph.D. dissert., 2.5.2. Goths & Huns, p. 42 (at )

Though in the years since writing that, I've seen it further suggested 
that a Gmc. *xarfath- might have come from some non-Germanic IE form 
(perhaps Dacian?) related to Albanian "karpë" (rock), which some have 
suggested stems ultimately from a PIE root *sker-/*ker-.  That, though, 
pretty much exhausts my (very limited) knowledge about the name of the 
Carpathians, though I've wondered very idly (and probably wrongly) about 
some distant connection with Indic párvata-/parvataH (depending on how 
the transliteration is done).

Cheers,
Carl

-- 
Carl Edlund Anderson
mailto:cea at carlaz.com
http://www.carlaz.com/





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