Mona,

That's right, Go. ga-bundi is related by ablaut to the verb bindan
(=ON binda) 'to bind', as is the Modern English bond. I see no
reason to doubt what Cleasby/Vigfusson says, that bóndi (contracted
from búandi) is in origin the present participle of búa cognate with
German bauen, Gothic bauan. By regular sound changes, if gabundi
had existed in classical Old Icelandic, it would have appeared as
*byndr; while the true Gothic equivalent of bóndi, if it had
existed, would look like *bauands.

Llama Nom


--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "mona striewe" <mona@...>
wrote:

> concerning bóndi and bond:
> i would be careful with gothic, this connection does not sound

very logical

> to me. gothic is a completely different branch of germanic

languages, and

> although they all share a common origin, they have developed in

different

> ways, especially concerning sound alternations in inherited words.
> what is the original verb the participle ga-bundi comes from in

gothic? i

> think there's some mutation stuff in there (ablaut).
> by the way in modern german we have the verb "bauen" (meaning to

build, bu

> probably related to bua originally) and a "bauer" is a farmer.
> mona