*kaúrdr

[ualarauans]

SAOb says kvader is rather from Lat. quadrus.

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Ingemar Nordgren" <ingemar at ...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans@> 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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