... went ... everybody ... Hi, I think that there are a number of problems with your theory. Firstly, Yiddish is based largely on Middle High German, i.e. the...
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Bertil Häggman
mvk575b@...
May 1, 2001 1:00 pm
Dear listmembers, Further to my comments on the Gepids Jordanes wrote in Getica XVII:94,95: "You surely remember that in the begining I said the Goths went...
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l_labkovsky@...
May 2, 2001 12:11 am
... are ... medieval ... that ... Georgia ... after ... in ... their "unique" ... Firstly, ... there ... Judaism ... decendants ... and OE but Yiddish has no...
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Håkan
hakan36@...
May 2, 2001 12:26 am
... Yes, why not add it to the list. I have a faint memory of 'chupacabras' appearing on the "x-files". But otherwise I think that 'unbiari' and 'bjära' could...
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dirk@...
May 2, 2001 11:05 am
... the ... this ... Eastern ... Hi again, I still find that theory unconvincing. Perhaps one of the linguists on this list can solve the problem. Personally,...
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keth@...
May 2, 2001 12:14 pm
... Hi Dirk, Those arguments make sense to me. I recall that some years ago the well known Hungarian author Arthur Kösteler wrote a monograph on a theory...
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dirk@...
May 2, 2001 11:00 pm
... Firstly, ... there ... Judaism ... decendants ... sufficiently ... group ... vikings ... dictionary ... descandants ... Hello Keth, that reminded me that...
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Tore Gannholm
tore.gannholm@...
May 3, 2001 5:14 am
... Hi! There are many names similar in that area. The following might be of interest: Gemeinsame Formen der Ortsnamen. Professor Svabe, Geschichte Litauens, ...
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Tore Gannholm
tore.gannholm@...
May 3, 2001 5:14 am
Hi! As far as I know the kagan and his people in the Chazarian state (Khazar) between rivers Dnjepr and Don konverted to Judanism sometime in the 9th century ...
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dirk@...
May 3, 2001 10:15 am
... the ... travel". ... Litauens, ... baltische ... Gotland ... über ... gegeben: Im ... Femininum ... der ... Endung ... wie ... Kurland ... bedeutet ... ...
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Alburysteve@...
May 3, 2001 2:06 pm
Hi Bertil: ... Gepidus is late Latin? My (classical) latin dictionary fails to even include a gep- root. Is it a loan word? Sorry for all the questions. ......
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dirk@...
May 3, 2001 3:25 pm
... even include ... this makes ... origins was ... is made ... Hulmul the ... Being ... hard to ... (being no ... reflexes ... propensity to ... (cf ... Hello...
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dirk@...
May 3, 2001 3:58 pm
Hello again Steve, I forgot one interesting, but not very well known bit of information abou the Gepids. The Chronicles of Salzburg (871AD) about the missions ...
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thistle@...
May 3, 2001 4:29 pm
Hi Folks, I am descended from the Hessens of Kreis Zeigenhain, Hesse-Kassel, Germany. As with most Americans, I am not an overly familiar with East European...
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Bertil Häggman
mvk575b@...
May 3, 2001 5:57 pm
Steve, Neither could I find it in my Latin-Swedish dictionary so it might after all not exist. I did note it in some encyclopedia on Germanic history, but that...
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mickkeee@...
May 3, 2001 8:08 pm
Hello all, Just found your list because it was on the front page of Yahoo's list. Very interseting! Good to see there is more out there. Mick Your Book +...
3699
jdm314@...
May 4, 2001 3:53 am
I'm not sure I can follow the logic of "I'm different, therefore I'm a Jew", but there's a more important point I need to make here: In a message dated 5/3/01...
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dirk@...
May 4, 2001 8:15 am
... a ... I ... Hi Nancy, the name of modern Hessen is most likely drived from the Germanic tribe of the Chatti (Hatten, German first name Hasso), who are ...
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dirk@...
May 4, 2001 2:51 pm
Hi Steve, Sorry for this protracted posting, but I am reading a bit around and came across a few more references to the Gepids, which seem to be of some...
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jdm314@...
May 4, 2001 3:25 pm
In a message dated 5/3/01 10:51:54 PM, Jdm314 wrote: <<I'm not sure I can follow the logic of "I'm different, therefore I'm a Jew", but there's a more...
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l_labkovsky@...
May 4, 2001 6:10 pm
... (Khazar) ... 9th ... linguists on ... was ... explicit ... realm. ... become ... Judaism??? ... offsrping ... therefore looked pretty much like Armenians...
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l_labkovsky@...
May 4, 2001 6:22 pm
Those who say that the Gothic language was different from Yiddish are wrong. If you read "The Thirteenth Tribe" by Arthur Koestler he mentions there a German...
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Bertil Häggman
mvk575b@...
May 4, 2001 7:49 pm
Dear listmembers, In addition to my latest contribution I would like to point out that maybe "shed" is a better translation of gjuta (giessen in German) than...
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angelique_oh@...
May 4, 2001 8:27 pm
... is not to ... turned into ... sort of ... changes in ... umlauts" and ... different things. ... I am Austrian and speak German as a native language, so...
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M. Carver
matt@...
May 4, 2001 10:49 pm
on 5/4/01 11:21 AM, l_labkovsky@... at l_labkovsky@... ... Mutual intelligibility of two languages may not necessitate their identity, as many...
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jdm314@...
May 5, 2001 4:53 am
... I will have to defer to your knowledge as a native speaker, but my understanding was that in Standard German, ae was pronounced as in English "hat" when in...
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jdm314@...
May 5, 2001 5:05 am
OK. ... avoid ... rumour ... It is one thing to convince people that they are Jews, it's another thing to convince them to therefor follow 613 Commandments,...
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angelique_oh@...
May 5, 2001 1:46 pm
... (non- ... Hm, well, I have never looked at the German language with this grammer things. I just speak it.*lol* But yes, "officially" "ae" ist pronounced...
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Alburysteve@...
May 5, 2001 6:47 pm
... Disagreement perhaps overstates my position as I cannot speak authoritively on Gapt one way or the other. It was my understanding that the derivation of ...
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Alburysteve@...
May 5, 2001 6:47 pm
... Indeed, Jordanes makes this same mistake, confusing the Getes, a group of Scythicized Thracians with whom Alexander tangled in his day, with the Goths. ......
