*kaúrdr

[Ingemar Nordgren]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans at ...> wrote:
>
> Go. *kaúrdr N.-a "pack", "herd", corresponding to OE corþor and OHD 
> kortar, may be reconstructed on the basis of Ossetic k'ord / k'war
> (d) "group", "flock", `multitude" (V. Abaev, 1958, s. v.). The word 
> must have been borrowed into Alanic during the presence of the 
> Ostrogoths in what is now the Ukraine.

Which also explains the military term 'kvader' - a military unit.

Best
Ingemar

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