Re[2]: [tied] done + Gothic?

At 12:06:13 on Wednesday, 25 January 2006, alex wrote:

> Brian M. Scott wrote:

>> At 2:30:01 PM on Monday, January 16, 2006, alex wrote:

>>> there is Alb. "gati" , Rum. "gãta ( to finish)", "gata"
>>> (ready, done, prepared, finished), Slavic
>>> "gotovo"(Salvic=same meaning?).

>>> I assume this is a loan from Germanic. Old enough if this
>>> made the change of "a" to "o" in Slavic and has the same
>>> "a" in Rum. and Alb. Germ. "tun", eng. "do"; German past
>>> part. "getan"= ready, made, finished.

>>> I don't know exactly if the form in Gothic was
>>> "gatan=done, prepared, made, etc." but a such form will
>>> explain all three forms in Rum. Alb. and Slavic.

>> I believe that the Gothic verbs are <taujan> 'to do, to
>> make', and <gataujan>, with past participles <tawiþs> and
>> <gatawiþs>; these go with OE <tawian> 'to prepare, to make
>> ready' (PDE <taw> '(weiss)gerben'), OHG <zawjan>, <zowjan>
>> (MHG <zouwen>) 'to prepare, to make'. I'm not aware of a
>> Gothic (or North Gmc.) cognate of PDE <do>, Ger. <tun>, etc.

> the form "gataujan"seems very appropiate to what I
> suppose.

Except that it's an infinitive, and the desired sense
really wants a past participle.

Brian