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* bull / calf: toru / tauru from Latin taurus; | * bull / calf: toru / tauru from Latin taurus; | ||
* chilled / frozen: freddu / frigidu from Latin frīgidus. | * chilled / frozen: freddu / frigidu from Latin frīgidus. | ||
Highly preserved Germanic lexis is also visible in Luthic: | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
! Gothic !! Old Norse !! Old High German !! Crimean Gothic !! Luthic !! English | |||
|- | |||
| ahtau || átta || ahto || athe || attuo || eight | |||
|- | |||
| augō || auga || ouga || oeghene || uogo || eye | |||
|- | |||
| barn || barn || barn || baar || barno || ba(i)rn | |||
|- | |||
| brōþar || bróðir || bruoder || bruder || broþar || brother | |||
|- | |||
| handus || hǫnd || hant || handa || andu || hand | |||
|- | |||
| haubiþ || hǫfuð || houbit || hoef (*hoeft) || uoveþo || head | |||
|- | |||
| hlahjan || hlæja || hlahhēn || lachen || chiaire || laugh | |||
|- | |||
| qiman || koma || quëman || kommen || qemare || come | |||
|- | |||
| wair || verr || wer || fers || veru || wer | |||
|} | |||
Discussions address the different versions of Busbecq’s account, noting scribal alterations, printing errors, and subsequent corrections. His transcription and interpretation of Crimean Gothic were likely shaped by his Flemish linguistic background and perhaps also by his knowledge of German. Busbecq’s information came from a Crimean Greek informant proficient in Crimean Gothic, who was either ethnically Greek or more comfortable in Greek than in his native Gothic, though still competent in the latter. In either case, the pronunciation conveyed to Busbecq was probably influenced, at least in part, by the phonetics of contemporary Greek spoken in the region. For more, vd. Stearns Jr 1978, which is my main resource for Crimean Gothic and its corpora displayed here. | |||
Luthic also inherited a few words, likely from Frankish, Langobardic and Old High German, which are mostly archaic, although still used in literally Luthic: | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
! Old High German !! Old English !! Modern German !! Modern English !! Luthic | |||
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| Adalheid || *Æþelhæþ || Adelheid || Adelheid || Adelaida | |||
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| amara || amore || Ammer || ammer || amara | |||
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| amsala || ōsle || Amsel || ouzel || asala | |||
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| blāo || blāw || blau || blow || biau | |||
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| ecka || ecġ || Ecke || edge || ecca | |||
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| eiscōn || āscian || heischen || ask || aiscore | |||
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| kamb || camb || Kamm || comb || cambu | |||
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| mahhōn || macian || machen || make || maccore | |||
|- | |||
| swert || sweord || Schwert || sword || sverta | |||
|} | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||