Re: V-, B-

> > 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.

> 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.

But that's not where you'd find them. What Hubschmid at al. write
about is much earlier than the presence of Vandals at the
Mediterranean. If Vandal loans ecist there, you'd search for them in
other literature.

This article makes no mention of Vandal loans.
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Andalusian_ Spanish

Torsten

And there wouldn't be any Vandal loans in Spanish because the Vandals were only in Spain for about about 20 years at the most. They arrived in 409, the Goths followed in 416 or so and the Vandals moved to Africa in 429. The only thing they left that we know of was their name. If they left any other words, they would have been confused with Gothic or Suebian.