Hi everybody! Tonight from midnight 9th december is the full moon. Add to this date the seven lost days from the Iulian calender and it is the 16th december....
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Thomas Ruhm
thomasruhm
Dec 9, 2011 11:52 pm
Thank you. I am happy about it. I thought that night was about to be useless. I will try to wake my brother and tell it to him....
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Ingemar Nordgren
ingemarn2000
Dec 10, 2011 12:33 am
I must clarify that the moon cycles start around 13th december according to the Iulian calendar. We now celebrate Lusse 13th december according to the...
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Ingemar Nordgren
ingemarn2000
Dec 23, 2011 12:04 pm
To all listmembers A Merry Yule and a Happy New Year Fröliche Weihnachten und Ein Gutes Neues Jahr Joueux Nöel et une bonne anné nouvelle Felicitas Navidad...
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Thomas Chelmowski
the_lothian
Dec 24, 2011 10:48 pm
Ave Civitas, I was wondering what would be the Gothic equivalent of Wassail? Tom [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Grsartor@...
Dec 26, 2011 10:07 am
About how to say "wassail": Wassail is from Old English wes țu hal (be thou hale). It is tempting to suggest "wis țu hails" as its Gothic equivalent, but I...
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Thomas Chelmowski
the_lothian
Dec 27, 2011 1:57 am
Hello Gerry, Â Thanks for the reply. Â Tom ________________________________ From: "Grsartor@..." <Grsartor@...> To: gothic-l@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
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Ingemar Nordgren
ingemarn2000
Dec 31, 2011 11:48 pm
Happy New Year to all! Ingemar...
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STEVEN HILGREN
hilgren
Jan 1, 2012 1:59 am
And great New Year to you too and ALL!. thanks Sherm AVA group, Ancient Viking of America research group owner and moderator.. ...
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Sigi Vandewinkel
sigivandewinkel
Jan 1, 2012 1:00 pm
Yes, a very happy new year to all of you. Sigi [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Alla
allatrene
Jan 1, 2012 11:39 pm
Hi my name is Alla, I'm writing a project for the university about Gothic history and kind of got lost in all the information I've been reading, I'm trying to...
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OSCAR HERRE
oscargoth
Jan 2, 2012 3:29 am
gutam haf niewa gadrausan...ita qith ist..... ... From: Alla <allafradkin@...> Subject: [gothic-l] Timeline of Gothic History To:...
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marja erwin
marja376
Jan 2, 2012 4:16 am
For one thing, who were the Goths? At different times, different groups called themselves GutĂŸiuda [and variations thereon]. I tend to think of the...
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Ingemar Nordgren
ingemarn2000
Jan 2, 2012 5:06 pm
Marja has given a good reply but I would just add some small comments. The first time the Goths are mentioned in a written source is by Strabo sometime before...
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Ingemar Nordgren
ingemarn2000
Jan 2, 2012 5:33 pm
I am sorry but I happened to give the wrong year for Teoderik's kingdom in Italy. He invaded Italy in 489 and killed Odovakar 493. The former year 476 was the...
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kevin.behrens@...
kevin.behren...
Jan 3, 2012 1:35 pm
Hello, I wondered and tried to do some research about how the family relations were called and which system it was in the gothic language. In the dictionary by...
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anheropl0x
Jan 3, 2012 10:22 pm
Chances are, for cousin and the like, they simply called other people kinsmen. Even the etymology dictionary, which says cousin is from Old French cosin,...
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Mike
mremic01
Jan 3, 2012 10:39 pm
The attested terms are: atta / fadar - father aiței / modar* - mother broțar - brother swistar - sister sunus - son dauhtar - daughter swaihra -...
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gotenfreund
Jan 3, 2012 11:24 pm
Check Peter Heather's The Visigoths from the Migration Period to the 7th Century: An Ethnographic Perspective, p. 139 ff., especially pp. 141-142. He discusses...
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kevin.behrens@...
kevin.behren...
Jan 4, 2012 11:05 pm
I really thank you for the tipps and sources. I now made a little list with possible names. Mutter aiței, modar Vater atta, fadar Bruder / brother ...
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kevin.behrens@...
kevin.behren...
Jan 6, 2012 3:18 pm
Hello, I am always wondering, how to make nouns out of verbs or adjectives in gothic. First there are verbal nouns like "the making", how are they made of the...
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Thomas Ruhm
thomasruhm
Jan 6, 2012 4:51 pm
Hello, maybe you would like to use ohg 'âri', which comes from Latin, even though the 'a' is long. A friend of mine who became fluent in Latin very quickly...
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anheropl0x
Jan 7, 2012 1:04 am
45. Word Derivation Words in Gothic are generally simple, derivative, or compound. Simple words have no discernable internal parts with meaning of their own....
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anheropl0x
Jan 7, 2012 1:06 am
Well. The board won't let me post this the way it should look. Let me put it all in a word file and upload it to the group, then I'll link it here. Sorry....
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gothic-l@yahoogroups....
Jan 7, 2012 1:10 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the gothic-l group. File :...
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anheropl0x
Jan 7, 2012 1:13 am
Alright, it's uploaded to the group. The file name is called GothicSuffixes. It has both prefixes and suffixes, with translations and examples so you know what...
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kevin.behrens@...
kevin.behren...
Jan 7, 2012 12:27 pm
Hey, have you written that on your own? I really thank you! That's amazing. But some questions still remain. Are -arja and -and the only suffixes to mark an...
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anheropl0x
Jan 8, 2012 1:34 am
No, these all came from my friend who works with Germanic languages even more than I do. He sites it in an e-mail as just Slocum & Krause. So I'm not sure...
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anheropl0x
Jan 25, 2012 10:27 am
Hello, all! Do you think that Gothic might have been a negative Concord language? I know a few old Germanic languages were, and there exist several today that...
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kevin.behrens@...
kevin.behren...
Jan 25, 2012 2:47 pm
German does have double negative. It's not that common in the standard language but almost all varieties of german know it. Actually it is more uncommon that...
