Re: [tied] RE: cardinal points_Gepids

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From: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>
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Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] RE: cardinal points_Gepids


> On Sat, 10 May 2003 07:58:24 +0300, S & L <mbusines@...> wrote:
>
> >Question: are there evidence of Germanic words in today Spanish
language
> >[leaved by the Germanic populations which build kingdom's in Iberic
> >Peninsula for almost 3 centuries] ?
>
> Very few Gothic words have left their mark on Spanish. The one I can
> remember is <gaita> "bagpipes", from Goth. gaits "goat". There are a
> few more (Larry Trask "The History of Basque", mentions hilms > elmo
> "elm", hanka > anca "haunch", fat > hato "clothing", and a full list
> is contained in the index to Corominas' multivolume etymological
> dictionary, which I don't have at hand) but the number is small
> Certainly not anything like the Frankish influence on French or the
> Longobard influence on Northern Italian
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...
>

One will say that there have been no Goths in Spain because there are
almost as no linguistic trace, even if we know the Goths have been long
time there and the capital was Toledo:-))