--- george knysh <
gknysh@...> wrote:
> *****GK: In that case we are looking at a time frame
> prior to 200 AD. This would fit in well with the
> notion that the term was brought eastward by the
> carriers of the so-called East Pomeranian/Yastorf
> cultures, and thus before the Goths. This would be
> new, since most of the literature still associates
> the
> borrowing with the Gothic expansion.
P.S. I found the absence of the expected "kunings" (in
Gothic) curious. Still... I wonder if it (and related
words) was/were deliberately phased out of the
language by Wulfila, in the process of his Bible
translation? And "thiudans" etc. universally
substituted... The reason being that "kunings" had
strong connotations of "king-priest" paganism? (And in
fact we see the later presence of the "priest" element
in the Polish adaptation.) If this was the case, then
perhaps we hould not eliminate Gothic "kunings" as a
source for the Slavic borrowing. ******
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