I'd like to know if someone knows what kinda a that was used. It would help me a lot with my pronunciation, eventhough I mostly read silent and alone. In lack...
Hi Tom, I've heard this idea suggested, and I don't know enough about the history to rule out the possibility of later immigrants, but purely in linguistic...
... skura ... Looks good to me, Fredrik. *staurms isn't attested, but reconstruction I think on the basis of a Germanic loan into Italian. In the same way you...
Hi Fredrik, We'll probably never know the exact pronunciation, but my guess would be that there wasn't much difference in quality (if any) between short and...
... Ah, it's not so bad. At least they're very regular. If you write enough poems you'll just absorb it naturally. ... hráinisto ... Romans 11,13 swa lagga...
Thanks. I found the Lord's Prayer in Gothic. rausch_roman <aranwe@...> wrote:Hello, Having finished the Gothic course by Mr. Salo I have written a poem in ...
... On the other hand 'ni nauhþanuh' and 'ni þanaseiþs' are both time expressions, so maybe 'ni lagga' would work. 'ni þateinei' "not only"; 'ni ainshun'...
... So it's -(i)st with regular adjective declension? ... Obviosly feminine singular.. Oh, right, German uses the same here: 'lange', 'so lange wie' (as long...
************* Hi Peter! Maybe it is hard to believe for Spanish-speaking people, but the most probable origination of the Spanish definite article <el> is just...
Hi, Tom! There is evidence, both historical and linguistic, that the Crimean Goths are indeed descendants of Eastern (or "Greutungian") Goths. The historical...
Hello all, Here is my attempt to summarise a paper by Ottar Grønvik on Crimean Gothic. Hope I haven't garbled anything or inadvertantly misrepresented any of...
... Yes, superlatives can be declined as weak or strong adjectives, although there are no examples of the neuter ending -ata. But comparatives are only weak....
I wonder if anyone knows what number a post has that contains some names (new constructed) of countries in gothic. It might also contain som city names and...
... contain ... Hi Fredrik, Maybe you're thinking of Francisc's post 1223. I'm not really sure how best to Gothicise 'Sweden'. Unfortunately Hellquist's...
I have started a list, but am not finished yet :))) regards Manie ... From: "Fredrik" <gadrauhts@...> To: <gothic-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday,...
Háils Does anybody know where I can find the four directions, both as substantive and adjective (South Africa, North Korea,...)? Which post deals with that? ...
... substantive ... with that? Hails Manie! Good question. I don´t know of any posts--though I´m sure there will be some somewhere--but here are some things...
I would assume something like the last: between the end of the first Greutungian state in 370 and Busbecq's day, there certainly were many other Germanic...
... am ... Oh, and lest we forget the obvious, there are actually words attested for East and West / orient & occident, as nouns: URRUNS "rising, east,...
Thanx Just like German "Abendland" and "Morgenland". ... From: "llama_nom" <600cell@...> To: <gothic-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005...
... it would ... monoglot Frank, ... Franks, ... barrier to ... This is an interesting question, but hard to answer because of the scantness of evidence. One...
Hi I haven't found a discussion here yet about the Gothic variety of Runes. Is there an inscription somewhere that we could see how the Goths wrote? I have...
I also knew that the Goths used the elder Futhark, a script that was common to all early Germanic tribes. Only in Scandinavia the elder Futhark was later...
You can find the full elder Futhark on the Kylver stone from Stånga in Gotland 4th century. http://www.stavgard.com/Gotland/historia_/kylverstenen/default.htm...
I have to concur with Francisc. Only a handful of Gothic inscriptions survive: while there may be some quirky forms, for example the box-shaped D-rune on the...
