Gothic alew ‘oil’ is ultimately derived from Latin oleum. Its phonological features, however, seem hardly reconcilable with those of the Latin word. This has prompted scholars to postulate that the Latin word was not borrowed directly into Gothic but rather via a third language: continental Celtic, Illyrian or Raetic. This article examines the weaknesses of these theories and proposes that the unexpected features of the Gothic item may be explained in terms of proper Gothic or Latin developments, making direct derivation of alew from oleum the most plausible and parsimonious hypothesis.

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论哥特语 Alew 的词源

哥特阿卢“油”最终源自拉丁语发烟硫酸. 然而，它的音韵特征似乎与拉丁词的那些特征难以调和。这促使学者们假设拉丁词不是直接借入哥特语，而是通过第三种语言：大陆凯尔特语、伊利里亚语或雷蒂语。本文检验了这些理论的弱点，并提出哥特式项目的意想不到的特征可以用适当的哥特式或拉丁语发展来解释，直接推导阿卢从发烟硫酸最合理和最简洁的假设。