| 单词 | crimean gothic |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCrimean Gothic Crimean Gothic n. [compare German Krimgotisch (1896 or earlier)] an East Germanic language, supposedly a dialect or descendant of Gothic, which continued to be used in the Crimea down to the 18th cent.The only extant evidence of Crimean Gothic is in a letter, published 1589, by de Busbecq, the Habsburg ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, which gives a list of some eighty words and a song supposedly written in the language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > Gothic Moeso-Gothic1735 Gothic1757 Crimean Gothic1858 Rugian1934 1858 Atlantis 1 69 Thus, for example, the word hand was in Gothic handus; Crimean Gothic, handa. 1913 J. D. Jones tr. R. Loewe Germanic Philol. i. v. 16 Crimean Gothic can have been no real Gothic dialect, as it did not undergo the different changes common to East and West Gothic. 1943 C. L. Wrenn Word & Symbol (1967) 137 The famous ‘Crimean Gothic’..rests on no other foundation than that of a hastily-written list of some seventy words and phrases which Busbecq thought he heard from two men who had been in the Crimea. 1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 229/2 European travellers were surprised to find Crimean Gothic still spoken by small communities. < as lemmas |
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