A friend of mine asked me the other day for some information about Gothic naming practices, and I realised I didn't really know very much about the subject....
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Priscilla de Paula
prida@...
Aug 2, 1999 11:36 pm
Can you inform me if my name called Adelgicius have some ghotic or german basis. I have searched about this and untill now I have found a sure definition....
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Alex Loepp
aloepp@...
Aug 3, 1999 12:00 am
I would suggest Appendix 3 to "Gotisches Woerterbuch" by Gerhard Koebler (EJ Brill, 1989.....ISBN 90-04-09128-9)......it has an extensive list of personal...
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Raymond Uppelschoten
Raymond_Uppelschoten@...
Aug 3, 1999 7:30 am
There is also a book on germanic names, often mentioned in bibliographies: Henry Woolf, "The old Germanic principles of namegiving". Unfortunately I haven't...
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Le Bateman
LeBateman@...
Aug 6, 1999 1:12 am
Hello Group When I transferred my email account from AOL to NetZero I lost most of my email from this group. Is there anyone who might be able to repost the...
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PWLmpBzkt3@...
Aug 6, 1999 3:55 am
Hi.....I was wondering if you could send me the Gothic parts of speech also...thanks a bunch. Skye...
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etsasse@...
Aug 6, 1999 5:46 pm
This is my first post, and to make sure it works, I thought I'd post a quick little question instead of my bio. Recently I've read that Spanish "Catalan" is...
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colkitto@...
Aug 10, 1999 4:00 am
Hi! My name's Robert Orr. Actually, I'm a Slavist with a sort of amateur interest in Gothic. I'm writing a paper on Slavic etymologies, working with a fairly...
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Alex Loepp
aloepp@...
Aug 10, 1999 7:30 am
Hi Robert, According to "A Gothic Etymological Dictionary" 'anaks' is a compound of 'ana' (prep) + 'k' (as in ajukduths,ibuks) + 's' (comparative suffix). See ...
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Elena Alcamesi
elena@...
Aug 10, 1999 7:56 am
According to Lehmann - A Gothic Etymological Dictionary. Leiden, Brill, 1986 - Got. anaks is based on ana ("at, on") + -k- < Germ. -k- < Ie. *-go- He does not...
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Christian Petersen
ctp@...
Aug 11, 1999 7:53 am
It's correct that Lehmann has etymologized as mentioned. But everyone be aware of the fact that finding etymologies is a process of proposal and rejection. In...
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etsasse@...
Aug 11, 1999 4:32 pm
<37b0aede.5e9af1a-@...> wrote: original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/gothic-l/?start=618 ... But in that listing there is doubt as to...
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Le Bateman
LeBateman@...
Aug 11, 1999 5:34 pm
Hails Jah Maegen and Megin are the OE, ON words for might strength, power. Beowulf line 196 states se waes moncynnes maegen strengo. The ON sagas refer to...
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etsasse@...
Aug 11, 1999 8:53 pm
Upon reading old posts, I noticed that there has been some discussion on how to decide what words and sources would be best for creating these technological...
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John Frauzel
frauzel@...
Aug 12, 1999 4:15 am
In many cases words like this are "calques". The Greek word elektron means amber, so the metaphor that serves as the basis for electricity is already ...
<370ca62e.3afb2ce-@...> wrote: original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/gothic-l/?start=439 Sorry to reply to such an old thread, but I was...
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Le Bateman
LeBateman@...
Aug 12, 1999 4:13 pm
Hails Jah. I found this website and I thought it might be of interest to someone. Le http://www.boudicca.de/jordanes1-e.htm...
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Le Bateman
LeBateman@...
Aug 12, 1999 4:17 pm
This is another website which is a continuation of the other one just sent. Le http://www.boudicca.de/jordanes0-e.htm...
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etsasse@...
Aug 12, 1999 4:50 pm
<3.0.1.32.19990811211050.007435a-@...> wrote: original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/gothic-l/?start=622 ... means ... already ... I know...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Aug 12, 1999 10:12 pm
My opinion is that if you're discussing things that are essentially alien to Gothic culture, the words might as well be alien as well. I would suggest using...
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Le Bateman
LeBateman@...
Aug 13, 1999 6:19 am
Hails Jah When I used AOL someone posted the parts of speech to this group in etymological comparison with OE, ON and OHG parts. I am sorry to ask this but...
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Le Bateman
LeBateman@...
Aug 13, 1999 6:20 am
Hails Jah I found a website which I will post later on which had Jourdanes History of the Goths online it also made mention of a Book Goths and Romans by J....
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Neil Fulton
nfulton@...
Aug 13, 1999 4:13 pm
... I don't think it's really a valid comparison: in the OE period it's still fairly obvious that the -es adverbial ending is from the gen. sg. masc./neut....
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METFREAK82@...
Aug 14, 1999 2:09 am
would anyone perhaps know what andrew would mean?...
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Pamela E.M Maddison
pmaddison@...
Aug 16, 1999 6:31 am
... From: Neil Fulton <nfulton@...> To: <gothic-l@egroups.com> Sent: 02 August 1999 17:27 Subject: [gothic-l] personal names ... Here's another masochist...
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etsasse@...
Aug 17, 1999 2:20 pm
How do you pronounce 'bagms'? I can think of 4 possible ways, only one of which involves the straightforward pronounciation of every letter. What's confusing...
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etsasse@...
Aug 17, 1999 3:40 pm
... But in Gothic, there is (at least one) adverbial genitive based word for which you don't have to account for a missing -i-, 'nahts' without even being...
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Christian Petersen
ctp@...
Aug 17, 1999 8:48 pm
... Well, Eric, I think you've put your question appropriately. As for myself, I should not assume the existance of svarabhakti here. Still useful: Ernst...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Aug 18, 1999 1:11 am
... This remarkable concatenation of consonants arises because of the collapse of the -az (or -as) nominative singular ending to just -s; it had been *bagmaz,...
