Re: Seeking info on Old Spanish

Re: Adam Walker & John Cowan

> > Any one know of some good lists of early Germanic borrowings into Vulgar
> > Latin especially in Iberia, the Italian pennenisula, Sicily, Sardinia
and
> > Cosica?
>
> "Brown", "blue", and "soap" come to mind, but there are lots more.
> (It's interesting that "soap" is everywhere a borrowing, suggesting
something
> interesting about the relative bathing habits of Germans and Romans!)
I've got a book (in Russian, printed): "Introduction to the Romance
Philology".
A brief info from it:

German borrowings to Latin (examples):

G. suppa 'soup' - Fr. soupe, Occ., Cat., Esp., Port. sopa, It. zuppa;
G. bank 'bench' - Fr., Occ., Cat. banc, Esp., Port., It.  banco;
G. skums 'foam' - Fr. écume, Occ., Cat., Port. escuma, It. schiuma;
G. blank 'white' - Fr., Occ., Cat. blanc, Esp. blanco, Port. branco, It.
bianco

Langobardian elements are rich in Italian dialects (up to 300 words).
Literary lang adopts e.g. spehon 'to observe' > spiare 'to spy'. Many
toponyms are of Langobardian origine.

In Spanish and Portuguese the number of Germanic elements is the lowest.
Still, they have some peculiar borrowings like ganso 'gosling' < Goth.
gansus; Port. & Old Esp. luva < Goth. lofa 'glove'.

-- Yitzik
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