Re: Negation

--- On Sun, 12/7/08, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: Negation
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, December 7, 2008, 6:39 PM
> > Ibero-Romance laverca could only have 4 sources
> > 1. Suevian ==since it's most common in Galician,
> and they ruled
> > Galicia c. 409 -525
> > 2. Gothic --since the Goths ruled Hispania c. 416-711
> > 3. Vandalic --ruled much of Spain c. 409-430; but we
> know almost
> > nothing about their language
> > 4. Frankish --i.e. a loanword from French or from
> Franks who filtered
> > into Spain
> >
>
> It's not Germanic
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/42626
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/50427
>
>
> Torsten

It's obviously cognate to English lark, Scots laverock, etc. and seems to have arrived in Hispania with the Germanic barbarians