some terms for George ( it was Re: Historical ...)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>

wrote:

> > ODS says 'kirke' is borrowed from OE, so that seems OK (Denmark

was

> > partly christianised from England). But what the heck would pagan
> > Germani need a church for? And if the word passed through Gothic,
> why
> > doesn't it occur, of all places, in the Bible?
>
> What do non-Moslems need mosques for?
>

Quite.

But also, if they wanted to have a word for their favorite object of
plunder, why not borrow 'ecclesia' (the Celts did)?

And then there's the second question?

Torsten