Re: [tied] das Wort

From: tgpedersen
Message: 16944
Date: 2002-11-30

--- In cybalist@..., Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Miguel Carrasquer
> To: cybalist@...
> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 9:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] das Wort
>
>
> > But does it have to be East Germanic?
>
> Those with the prefix reflected as /go-/ (< *ga-) in Slavic are
East Germanic, as a rule. I have just discovered (in the supplement
to Bosworth & Toller's dictionary) OE gewerian with the meaning 'make
a treaty, come to an agreement (or, shall I say, <dogovor>)'. This is
the closest match I've been able to find so far, and the (alas,
purely hypothetical) East Germanic equivalent would have been
*gawarjan.
>
> Piotr

Don't forget <gotov> from the long discussion of Germanic *tau-jan.

Torsten