Re: [tied] done + Gothic?

At 2:30:01 PM on Monday, January 16, 2006, alex wrote:

> there is Alb. "gati" , Rum. "gãta ( to finish)", "gata"
> (ready, done, prepared, finished), Slavic
> "gotovo"(Salvic=same meaning?).

> I assume this is a loan from Germanic. Old enough if this
> made the change of "a" to "o" in Slavic and has the same
> "a" in Rum. and Alb. Germ. "tun", eng. "do"; German past
> part. "getan"= ready, made, finished.

> I don't know exactly if the form in Gothic was
> "gatan=done, prepared, made, etc." but a such form will
> explain all three forms in Rum. Alb. and Slavic.

I believe that the Gothic verbs are <taujan> 'to do, to
make', and <gataujan>, with past participles <tawiþs> and
<gatawiþs>; these go with OE <tawian> 'to prepare, to make
ready' (PDE <taw> '(weiss)gerben'), OHG <zawjan>, <zowjan>
(MHG <zouwen>) 'to prepare, to make'. I'm not aware of a
Gothic (or North Gmc.) cognate of PDE <do>, Ger. <tun>, etc.

Brian