Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Wrong etymologies for Germanic (and Proto-Germanic) words/reply (3)

If I may chime in (I know the discussion is rather late by now), but I find it difficult to accept a direct Latin borrowing into Old English of angel post Augustine. The Gothic form is said to be a direct borrowing from Greek, granted, and probably no connection exists between it and the OE word; however, there must have been another intermedite form in Common (West) Gmc: *angila(z), which produced the umlaut. If this period is not PGmc, it is Continental Gmc (West dialects). Same with church. OE didn't borrow it directly from the Greek. It was spread via other GMc dialects before reaching the forebears of the Angl-Saxons. What would we best call this stage, if not PGmc? Leasnam (talk) 17:41, 23 July 2012 (UTC)