Re: Seeking info on Old Spanish

Adam Walker scripsit:

> Vandal seems to be hopeless.  I would give blood for just a good word list.
The trouble is that the Vandals blended into North Africa too thoroughly,
and their language was forgotten.  AFAIK it was never written.

> 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!)

> Also, how closely was Vandal/the Vandals realted to Gothic/the Goths?  Does
> anyone even know if the were East, West or North Germanic?
East, definitely East Germanic.

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