%0 Journal Article
%T GOTHIC BANJA*, WINJA AND SUNJA
%A Snædal, Magnús
%J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
%V 2016
%R 10.4467/20834624SL.16.007.5153
%N Volume 133, Issue 2
%P 97-108
%K etymology, word formation, Gothic, Old Norse, West-Germanic, Germanic
%@ 1897-1059
%D 2016
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-linguistica-uic/article/gothic-banja-winja-and-sunja
%X 
	The present paper discusses the etymology of three Gothic nouns: banja* ‘sore’, winja ‘pasture’, and sunja ‘truth’. Each of them has a cognate in Old Norse: ben ‘fatal wound’, vin ‘oasis’ and syn ‘refusal’. None of the West-Germanic languages preserves all three nouns. All are short, feminine jō-stems with an -n- in front of the stem suffix. The main issue discussed here is the etymology and formation of these nouns.