From: alex
Message: 43107
Date: 2006-01-25
> At 2:30:01 PM on Monday, January 16, 2006, alex wrote:the form "gataujan"seems very appropiate to what I suppose. Thank you
>
>> 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