Boz = Bus < *Baus?

[Tore Gannholm]

Hi,

 From which century is the source you refer to?

Tore


On Jul 15, 2006, at 10:14 AM, ualarauans wrote:

> Excuse my contributing again to this rather Slavic than Gothic
> topic, but it just came to my mind that the “Slovo o polku Igoreve”
> may have been told after a hypothetical ”Yngvárs saga ok  
> fólks hans”
> with inherent reminiscences kept of the Goths being akin to the
> actual Varangian dynasty.
>
> In case it happens to be of interest for somebody who isn’t well
> familiar with the source (or doesn’t read Cyrillic), I tried to put
> the fragment of the Lay in question as follows: (errors in the
> transliteration and the Gothic (back-?)translation are to be imputed
> to me)
>
> Se bo gotÜskyję krasnyję děvy
> vÚspěšę na brězě sinemu morju:
> zvonę RusÜskymÜ zlatomÜ,
> pojųtÚ vrěmę Busovo,
> lelějųtÚ mÜstÜ Šarokanju
>
> Sai auk gutiskos skaunjos (1) maujos
> ufsuggwun ana statha blewaizos mareins:
> fetjandeins sik(2) rothsiskamma gultha,
> liuthond theihsa Bausis(3),
> lustond fraweitis Sarwakonis(4)
>
> An English version is here (I still doubt I understood everything
> right, so plz don’t be evil to me, OK):
>
> Behold the beautiful Gothic maids
> singing at the coast of the blue sea [the Black Sea?]:
> ringing with Rus’ish gold [which the victorious Goths stole from the
> treasury of the Antes??]
> they praise the time of Bus [under whom the Antes were defeated???]
> they wish that Sharokan could (be) avenge(d) (?) [a place quite not
> clear to me]
>
> Phonetic notes:
> _ę_ stands for nasal /e/, _ų_ for nasal /o/ which both  
> were most
> probably spoken already as /a/ resp. /u/ in the time of the Lay;  
> _ě_
> marks a long vowel which became /’e/ in Russian, /i/ in Ukrainian
> and /ia/ in Polish (what was it then?), in Gothic loanwords it
> reflects diphthongal -ai-, as in OCSl. xlěbÚ “bread” < Go.  
> hlaib-;
> _Ü_ and _Ú_ are conventional signs for Slavic reduced /i/ resp. /u/.
>
> Semantic notes:
> (1) Russian Vorlage hat it literally “raudos maujos”
> (2) literally “ringing with”, what means they have put on some
> jewelry made of that gold?
> (3) *Baus (i-stem) is an attempt to create a Gothic etymology of the
> name, its literal meaning then being “evil-minded” (NHG böse) –
> quite to the point when talking of a leader of some enemy tribe
> which later became mythicized  (“The Evil One” (*Baus) ruling over a
> people of “giants” (*Anteis) – how you like that?). Then pre-
> Wulfilan *Baus [baus] > Late Gothic [bo:s] written down as Boz by
> Jordanes, and [baus] > quite regularly Slavic [bus] in the Lay (???).
> (4) ŠarokanÜ* seems to be Turkic, from sary “yellow” and ka(gh)
> an “sovereign”, “khan”. It could be rendered like [fraweitis] Gilwis
> Thiudanis, my *Sarwakons is just slapdash constructed from the words
> sarwa- “weapon” and *kons (i-stem) “brave”, “known”, “renowned”.
>
> For a non-Germanic etymology of Boz there might be of some reference:
> Ossetic buz “thankful”, buznyg “thanks!”;
> an etymology involving Turkish boz “grey” could also be considered
> in the context of the question about (proto-)Turkic identity of
> (some) Huns (we know the Huns meddled in that case of Uinitharius
> vs. Boz – Get. 248-9)
>
> Ualarauans
>
> P.S. I discovered lately Ossetic ændæ “beyond” (Sanskr.
> ánta “end”, “border”, hence Antes = “frontier tribes”) pointed  
> out
> in G. Vernadsky’s  “Das frühe Slawentum“ (V. Bern., 1956, p.  
> 256),
> but I couldn’t find the word in my dictionary (why?)
>
>
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