Gothic influence on Spanish language?

[Francisc Czobor]

I believe that Spanish paja comes rather from Latin palea "straw" 
(whence also French paille, Italian paglia, Romanian paie "straw").
But it is very likely that Latin palea is cognate with the Sanskrit 
palavah and Proto-Slavic *pelva at the Indo-European level.

Francisc



--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Fernando Eladio Jimenez Diaz IV" 
<visigoth at ...> wrote:
>
> BTW: In areas north of the Meseta we use the word PAJA <PAHAA> (j-
> BEING PRONOUNCED LIKE "H" in English) as the word for straw. Im not 
> sure of its etymology though.
> Cheers,
> FX
>


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