Re: [OT]: a strange language name abbreviation (was: How to encode reversed section sign?)

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> Exploring the dictionary with the search engine (which is operational
> since today morning ...) I discovered two occurences of an unexplained
> abbreviation which refers to a language in which "silvir" means
> "silver" and "ses" means "six". The name of the language is
> abbreviated as "Kimr."
>
> Any ideas what the abbreviation is supposed to mean?

Well, one possibility would be Crimean Gothic. The corpus
does indeed include a word for six "seis" and a word for
silver "siluir".

See:

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/gotol-10-R.html

--Ken

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