Hello

[Fredrik]

Hi!

I'm sorry but I didn't get exactly what you meant but since I've 
studied spanish have I noticed the gothic influence in it.
Sure is that gothic hadn't any great influence, arabic had way more.
But there are a few words in spanish from gothic origin.
And as you mention also a few names.
Among those I would add Alafuns/Alfonso.

A word such as alevoso is most probably from gothic, cf. the verb 
lewjan = betray. And the verb escanciar (which I guess only exist in 
some dialects of spanish) comes from gothic skagkjan.
But about the word guante (cognate to swedish vante) I'm not sure.
Is it from gothic or is it a earlier loan from another germanic 
language. The same word occur in italian as guanto and french as gant.
The portuguese word luva could probably come from gothic glofa 
(cognate to english glove), with the same meaning. 

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Pablo" <pittaluga at ...> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> 
> My name's Pablo, and I'm from Argentina. I'm a PR & Training man, 
having 
> Germanic languages as a hobby and interest.
> 
> I've seen Gothic pages where was depicted as the missing link for 
Germanic 
> reconstruction, and observing its vocabulary noted that goes 
halfway Germanic 
> halfway Latin –due to simultaneous existence I guess-, i.e. "ahwa" 
(water), 
> "idjja" (past participle of go, quite similar to Spanish "ido"). My 
mother tongue is 
> Spanish, a language that was quite influenced by Visigoth from AD 
300 to AD 
> 700, roughly the Visigoth rule in Spain. But even is Spanish 
language studies 
> Visigoth is kind of ignored. You can see the traces in Fernando 
(Ferdinand), 
> Rodrigo (Roderick), et cetera.
> 
> I'd love to share thoughts and points of view on Gothic with you 
all.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Pablo
>


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