Re: cardinal points

>>*****GK: After the Roman abandonment of Dacia, the
>>territory north of the Danube was dominated for
>>centuries by Germanic (esp. Gothic) populations,
>>Transylvania included.
>
>I guess there are some of them.
>înnoi (ana-nojan), înhaita (ana-haitan)etc.

In whose opinion are these Germanic loanwords?
(And what kinda Germanic? Gothic? Gepidic? Or
rather German?)

>Pushcariu about aromanians, where he mentions
>that in the XVIII century the aromanian women
>have been monolingual and they did not knew an
>[...] I have no idea why germans & slavs
>intermingled.

Do read again: <<after the abandonment... was
dominated by German*ic* (esp. *Gothic*)
populations.>> I.e., prior to the Avar & Slavic
colonizations. Mr Knysh didn't refer to the
German colonists which started to settle down
in Transylvania in the last 2 decades of the 12th
century (invited by Hungary's king and chiefly
coming from Rhineland, Wallony and Flanders).

So, not Germans speaking Mittelhochdeutsch, but
Germanic tribes who had spoken idioms more or
less similar to Wulfila's (and Iordanes's) Gothic
6-8-10 centuries earlier.

George