Speaking of tenses I wonder somethings. First of all, is gothic poor with tenses? What I can understand there's only one for now, present tense. And one for...
Dear Group, I would like to introduce a new and refreshing group which discusses the history of Ancient Rome: from the lives of the Roman Kings, to the...
Hi, Fredrik, The German authors (like Streitberg a century ago and Koebler in the present) speak about "Indikativ, Optativ, Imperativ". David Salo in his...
Hails Fredrik! If you see numbers in [] square brackets in this message, look at the bottom of the page for footnotes. Yes, I'm afraid it's come to that... ...
Hello, I have a question: Which contemporary Gothic words (in sense of: referring to the 4th/5th century) are known? And which reconstrutions have been...
... to ... In Mt 9,37, the construction RAIHTIS...IŞ translates the Greek MEN...DE. In spite of the appearance of "truly" in the old Authorised Edition (King...
Rome is attested: RUMA (dat. Rumai, 2 Tim 1,18; and at the end of Gal 6). St. Paul's letter to the Romans ends DU RUMONIM "to the Romans". The Roman Emperor...
Does Gothic follow the Greek or Latin rules of grammar? In Classical Latin the verb at times has its position at the end of the sentence according to Wheelock....
Perhaps to be is an understood word. So it is omitted. Le ... From: "Roman Rausch" <aranwe@...> To: <gothic-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, August 11,...
Is there any evidence for a Gothic cognate to the Anglo-saxon wordthat's a root of modern "Welsh"? Continental Germanic dialects as well as A-S use variants on...
... Other alternatives: *Walhaland, cf. ON Valland ana Walh(a)şiudai, cf. Go. ana Gutşiudai ana Walham, cf. OE on Wealum, on Eastenglum, etc. The last two...
... You're getting better at this! Only two grammar suggestions and a semantic caution for you this time... The genitive plural of 'guş' "god" would be...
... papers/755gothpaper.html]. Thanks, these links are indeed useful. So far two attempts: Looking into the Norse 'Hervarar saga ok Heiğreks' (http://norse. ...
Nine daughters of Aegir. I am trying to make some notes on Aegir, an old Vanir god on the way out to become a giant. It is my idea that he was a Frey like god...
In the gothic language exist the word atta for 'father'. Comes it from the Indo-european language? I know that in other germanic lanugage the cognates of latin...
The word 'fadar' also excists, but is used very little in the Gothic manuscripts that have survived. Atta seems to have been more popular with the scribes. ...
**************************************************************************************** Derivation of Gothic <atta> from Indo-European is a commonly accepted ...
there is substance for the use of fader as i have read thru wulfilas translations in the bible.....however i think russian translations are assimilar to gothic...
Regarding Danube, Thomas Czarnecki proposes the Gothic form *DONAWI to account for Polish Dunaj. "Die Bezeichnung dieses großen Flusses ist zu den Slawen...
Some odd words for "father". North Frisian has 'atj' (Amrum); 'ate' (Hindelopian), according to Joseph Biddulph "A Grammar of North Friesian". Writing in...
Thank you very much for your very good answer. A bad answer puts an end to a line of thought, a good answer opens new lines, new possibilities. Now I will work...
Hello all, I read the study „Stamm und Reich der frühen Thüringer nach den Schriftquellen" (i.e. Folk/tribe and realm of the early Thuringians according to...
... Re. my comments on the position of RAIHTIS, this might be okay actually, given: du leitilamma mela raihtis... But in favour of placing it after RUNA in...
... True, and then they put the outside box inside the inside box, just to be sure. ... You have to fish for them... ... Never swear on a shark. That´s my...
The main questions I would have regarding this theory are: -- why wouldn't anyone 400-600 have called the Thuringians "Goths"? They were allied to Theodoric's...
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