𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐍄𐍉𐌽

Borrowed from Latin mīlitō (“to serve in the army”). Attested in Wulfila's bible translation dating to the third quarter of the fourth century, it was likely borrowed sometime from the early third century onwards (when contact between Goths and Romans intensified due to the Goths reaching the Dacian frontier in their migrations) to denote the semantic difference between Gothic-style warfare (for which there existed a native word 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐌹𐌽𐍉𐌽 (drauhtinōn)) and the kind of army service Goths would have experienced (as auxiliaries or otherwise) in the Roman army.

𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐍄𐍉𐌽 • (militōn)

1. (intransitive) to serve in the (Roman) army

The participle 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐍄𐍉𐌽𐌳𐍃 (militōnds) is used by Wulfila to mean 'soldier'.