Re: YADPT (D=Dutch)

Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> En réponse à Andreas Johansson :
>
>
> >My Duden doesn't recognize the word at all, but a quick search with
> google.de
> >seems to indicate that the forms _Visigote_ and _Wisigote_ are about
> equally
> >common (both almost always pl _V-/Wisigoten_). Searching for "wisigoth"
> gives
> >mostly French hits even when I tell Google to only search German pages.
> >
> >So the short answer is "no". But why should the French have nicked the
> German
> >form anyway?
>
> Because it refers to a German tribe :)) . At least, I've learned that this
> term was a borrowing, not a native word.
I do assume you know the Goths weren't German?

What, BTW, would the regular French reflex of Latin _uisigothum_ (that's acc,
not neuter!) have been? You ought to be using that anyway!

                                                         Andreas

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