Re: V-, B-

> > Would Hubschmid, or someone who did the same kind of work, have a
> > possible list of Germanic words in N. Africa? If such words
> > survived, of course.
>
> I can't find 'Vandal' in the books I've OCR'ed.
> It would be too recent for Hubschmid.
>
>
> Not the word Vandal, but some possible Germanic adstrate in N.
> African Berber and possibly N. African Arabic. I realize they were
> only in power for a hundred years or so, but they have contributed
> something.
> Although they were in Spain, any contribution would be confused
> with Gothic, Suebian or Frankish (via French loans)

I think you misunderstood. The reason I searched for 'vandal' is that
that way I would find any mention of loans from Vandalian in the
texts. There wasn't any.

Torsten

I see. There are some IE words in N Africa and logically most of them (nearly all?) are from Romance, Latin and Greek but if Hubschmid et al. don't mention Germanic or Vandalic, then it's a huge job to find them.