Re: V-, B-

> > I think you misunderstood. The reason I searched for 'vandal' is
> > that that way I would find any mention of loans from Vandalian in
> > the texts. There wasn't any.


> I see. There are some IE words in N Africa and logically most of them
> (nearly all?) are from Romance, Latin and Greek but if Hubschmid et
> al. don't mention Germanic or Vandalic, then it's a huge job to find
> them.

But that's not where you'd find them. What Hubschmid at al. write
about is much earlier than the presence of Vandals at the
Mediterranean. If Vandal loans ecist there, you'd search for them in
other literature.

This article makes no mention of Vandal loans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andalusian_Spanish

Torsten