Hello. My Name is David Bustillos. I know basically nothing about the Goths. But I want to learn. does anyone have a list of links or of books in English that...
... Hi and welcome David. I don't know any links right now but it shouldn't be so hard to find I guess. Do you want to learn about the goths or about their...
Both. Really. A Good bit of history and Government/King/Law theory, Religion, (both Pagan and Christian) Also a good Language book or more. I am just now...
Hi David and welcome! The Goths are disputed in many ways and so is their history. I have myself disputed in the matter and my dissertation is published in ...
Hello all, My name's Pablo, and I'm from Argentina. I'm a PR & Training man, having Germanic languages as a hobby and interest. I've seen Gothic pages where...
What do people think of Michael Pawleta's study "Bluring Genders. A case study from Pruszcz Gdanski cemetery in Northern Poland." ? And what would be suitable...
Hi! I'm sorry but I didn't get exactly what you meant but since I've studied spanish have I noticed the gothic influence in it. Sure is that gothic hadn't any...
I guess suitable gothic terms for gender would be e.g. qina-kunds for feminine and hence kunds for gender. Under "files" to the left there's a list of gothic...
Hello Fredrik, Thanks a lot for your mail and explanations. You got what I meant, I love to see and detect similarities between languages, and their influence...
Hi Pablo! I must add an intressenting thing about the word escanciar. This is cognate to swedish skänka which means "give away" but it can also be used in a...
... Hails Frižureik(s)! ... 'hails' is used twice as a greeting or salutation in the Gothic Bible, once with nominative, once with vocative - never with...
Hails LN! ... Bible, ... explicitly "be ... in ... sijaiž ... But is there any other attested way to greet? I think it is most logic to use vocative now when...
... The angel who comes to Mary greets her with the imperative verb 'fagino' "rejoice" or "be happy". This translates Greek CAIRE, as does 'hails' when the...
... does ... Iudaie' ... OK, but it's kinda weird if one would greet today by saying "be happy" so I wouldnt prefer that one. ... wish ... Godana dag is...
... does ... Iudaie' ... happy" so I wouldnt prefer that one. Not so strange to the Greeks who greeted each other with CAIRE (be happy, contented, well), or in...
I'm really excited to be in this group. I've been longing to speak with another person who is studying Gothic (as opposed to resurrecting Joseph Wright or...
Wow... I didn't think the -lif suffix was used in other numbers other than eleven and twelve (and maybe thirteen.) And dative plural for jer? I thought it'd be...
Dear Johann, As far as I know the extant forms used to express age in Wulfila bible follow these three structures: - 'wisan' ("to be") + 'jere' + numeral...
Yes, I tried to take all of these things in mind as best as I could. I have Wright's book "Grammar of the Gothic Language," and I used many, many websites in...
One thing I want to add that I found in my book by William H. Bennett is "...du usqiman all barne und twa jere habando" from the Gospel of Matthew I believe...
Also, can someone please explain to me the very weird (to me) placements of definite articles? In one of my books is the dedication "Qenai meinai žizai...
Hi Johann! It is as far I can see not a question of definite article but just a clarification of what yoy mean with the shepher, which shepherd. Hardeis is...
I'm working on some independent research into the origins of the Old English poem known as 'Deor', & have been reading Wolfram for some Gothic context (mostly...
Hi Bob, Some good works in German, however not so very fresh but they belong to the standard works: Reinhardt Wenskus "Stammesbildung und Verfassung" 1965. He...
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