Re: YADPT (D=Dutch)

It would probably be  "visegou"  pl.  "visegoux"

Perhump

Elliott.


--- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> 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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