Re: [tied] Re: Albanian Toponyms -> showing that Albanians was in t

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 37683
Date: 2005-05-06

pielewe wrote:

> It is important to realize that Gothic was just about the most widely
> used language in the multilingual Hunnic state. We would not know
> this but for Priscus, to whose account of his visit to Attila's court
> I referred to just now in another posting (the translation is by J.B.
> Bury): ...

Little wonder, given that Attila is known to all by his Gothic nickname,
and the only "Hunnish" word we know (also thanks to Priscus) is most
likely Gothic as well.

Piotr