... From: Johan Meyer <izakmeyer@...> To: gothic-l Moderator <gothic-l-owner@yahoogroups.com> Date: Monday, March 03, 2003 3:34 AM Subject: Re: Welcome...
Salvte! My name is Martin, I come from the northern part of Czech Republic (middle Europe) and I am 26. I am of german origin, work as a high school teacher. I...
Hails, I am curious as to the origin of the word "balan", mentioned in Procopius' History of the Wars, V, XVlll, in my vol, p 173, ",,,and his whole body was...
greg scaff <g_scaff@...> wrote: Hails, I am curious as to the origin of the word "balan", mentioned in Procopius' History of the Wars, V, XVlll, in my...
Hi Greg!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> I have not a direct answer on your question regarding the "barbaric" word...
... com:office:office" /> ... Hi Vladimir, perhaps 'belyi' Russian for white is a possible link? Not sure what 'white' would be in Old Slavonic. cheers Dirk ...
Hails, Greg in the Romanian language, "balan" means "white" or "light-colored", with reference to horses (and sometimes it means also "blonde", with reference...
Koebler suggests Go. *Bala- refers orig. to 'white', and spec. a horse with a white marking, i.e. a "blaze" (cf. Byz. 'balas'), prob. < s. germ. *bala- "white,...
hot - heits south(ward) - adv. sunthr north(ern) - adj. naurths (adv. = ? naurthr) on - ana (et al.) off - ab (et al.) feel - ? you have to name what exactly...
Hi Dirk!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> I do not think Russian "belyi" to have connection to Procopius' "balan"....
oscar - izwar is pronounced IZ-war. The 'w' is always 'w', not like v. It is the semivowel, not the bilabial continuant, in other words, like english 'w' or...
Sorry for the tardy response. I suggest for a translation of "Fire of life, make holy this place and keep out all evil": "Fon þizos libainais, weihais þana...
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Hails, My thanks go to Dirk, Vladimir, Oscar, and of course Matthew for your interest and insightful comments re: "balan". I guess another question would be...
hails greg- It may be possible. The horse-riding tribes of the steppes, Scythians and Sarmations seem to have loaned a few words to germanic languages in ...
Hi Le, I think you should forget the topic unless you like WWII history. As far as I know this is a name applied by Hitler and his gang when re-incorporating...
Hails Alls! This posting is following the vein that was tapped by Bertil sometime ago regarding possible the Erulic homeland. The question I have is regarding...
Hi Valúlfr, The prefix 'var-' means 'guard, to guard, to defend' like in German wehren, Swedish värja. Simplified you could consider a wolf a kind of "wild...
Hi again, Valúlfr, I saw my answer was incomplete. It seems the words vargr and warg could derive of wahren, wehren as earlier suggested and from värja. Warg...
Dear Valúlfr, This begins to be a nuseance. I checked Hellquist etymological Wordbook just to find only the meanings of vargr as thief, killer, ulv(wolf) and...
Hails! Just a quick reminder that list topics should be kept relevant to Gothic studies. Thanks! Albareiks Moderator, Gothic-L ... From: Ingemar Nordgren...
Dear Jen, Feel warm welcomed to the list. I am not a specialist in music but I know there are such people on the list. I hope to be able to contribute...
... the ... Germanic ... Hi Jen, I am not aware of finds of musical instruments asscociated with the Visigoths of Spain. Yet, it is of course possible to look...
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