Crimean Gothic
noun
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..
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Atlantis. Compare German Krimgotisch.
- touch on (or upon)
- touch (or hit) a nerve (or a raw nerve)
- touch (or tug) one's forelock
- touchpad
- quiddative
- quidding
- quidditas
- quidditative
- quidditatively
- quidditive
- quiddity
- quiddle
- quiddling
- quiddony
- quidlet
- quidnunc
- quid pro quo
- quids in
- quidsworth
- quien sabe
- quien savvy
- quies
- quiesce
- quiescence
- quiescency