From: tgpedersen
Message: 61959
Date: 2008-12-08
>'Of much contested and obscure descent'
> --- 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