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Re: YADPT (D=Dutch)

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, November 10, 2003, 19:52
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. Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>