I'm not sure, did we finish the last list (Archeological Termninology)? If so, might I commission a household objects list? Many of the words might already be...
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brynhild84
Jun 5, 2007 11:57 pm
Can someone look at the grammar for this first part of a story that I have written in Gothic? Thanks. Sai farra, thiudan unsara farith finthith hozd, skalks is...
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ualarauans
Jun 6, 2007 3:35 am
Hi Aaron, ... that I ... I'll try but you better add your English translation next time so that we could be sure what you mean. ... aiths ... If this was...
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llama_nom
Jun 8, 2007 11:56 pm
... That's right (Mt 8:20, L 9:58 = KATASKHNWSIS), but it does also mean "seat" (Mk 11:15 = KAQEDRA) and "throne" (I Cor 1:16 = QRONOS)....
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llama_nom
Jun 9, 2007 1:02 am
... Sai ?????, thiudans unsar gaggith huzd bigitan; skalks is swarith, thatei thiudanis seinis hilpith. Lo ????, our king goes to find treasure; his servant...
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llama_nom
Jun 9, 2007 1:30 am
... 'finthan' "to discover" (information), "to learn". I think 'bigitan' "find" fits better. For the idiom 'gaggan' + infintive, cf. L 19:12: 'manna sums...
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llama_nom
Jun 9, 2007 8:45 am
... Alternatively, if you really want to show off, you can use the enclitic conjunction here: is sitith ana sitla gibiduh skalka seinamma gulth....
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ualarauans
Jun 9, 2007 4:51 pm
... oath. Cf. fraweit giban "to take vengeance" (2. Thess. 1:8) and fraweit usgiban "to suffer vengeance", "to be punished" (2. Thess. 1:9). Interestingly, the...
Hi, I'm not an expert in the Gothic orthography and I need your help. Could someone please tell me if there are cases of Go. mannan (acc. sg. of manna "man")...
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Paperno D.
denis_paperno
Jun 15, 2007 1:30 pm
Hails Walarawans, One thing is clear that mannan is always written in full in Silver Codex; I can't check other monuments now. I see however no reason why it...
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ualarauans
Jun 15, 2007 6:25 pm
Hails Denis, Thanks a lot for your reply. I'd appreciate to know also if there are cases where the necessary mark is absent, due to a scribal error or...
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faltin2001
Jul 1, 2007 1:44 pm
... and ... Hi, I don't think so, because the Goths in Spain didn't speak Gothic, but Latin or some vulgar Latin with a few Germanic/Gothic remnants. The ...
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OSCAR HERRERA
oscargoth
Jul 1, 2007 2:47 pm
???????????? faltin2001 <d.faltin@...> wrote: --- In gothic-l@yahoogroups.com, "Abdoer-Ragmaan Lombard" ... and ... Hi, I don't think so,...
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faltin2001
Jul 2, 2007 1:44 pm
Hi Oscar, are the many question marks an expression of disbelief or a sign that you are unclear about the content of my comment? Just to clarify, there is...
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OSCAR HERRERA
oscargoth
Jul 2, 2007 2:04 pm
... invaded spain it contends that they drove out other enemys there which included the roman legions there and others, etc....oscar...
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Ingemar Nordgren
ingemarn2000
Jul 2, 2007 11:42 pm
Dear Oscar! Evidently we all have been victims for a great complot. We have been told there were Goths once upon a time but this evidently is only fantasies....
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macmaster@...
thomasjmacma...
Jul 3, 2007 2:14 am
How long did it take Norse to die out among the Normans? Certainly less than a century (from 911 settlement to no later than the first quarter of the...
9752
Michael Erwin
bty877030
Jul 3, 2007 11:59 am
To answer one possible objection, the use of Latin for religious purposes may have sped the switch from Norse to French on the continent, but it didn't stop...
9753
Michael Erwin
bty877030
Jul 3, 2007 12:35 pm
We might compare, as best we can, reconstructed linguistic frontiers from c. 300 with those from c. 800. The West Germanic languages did expand, Anglo-Frisian...
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OSCAR HERRERA
oscargoth
Jul 3, 2007 2:05 pm
i can only say with dispute in the case with faltin ......think about all the gothic chieftains thru the centuries in being their names as...
9755
macmaster@...
thomasjmacma...
Jul 3, 2007 2:11 pm
I'm not so sure; using the Normans as a template, we see that they were using Germanic names long after they had adopted French, English, and Italian. We also...
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gutdwala
Jul 4, 2007 5:54 am
Hails, Does anyone know what the imperative of verbs like 'fraihnan' and 'frathjan' would have been? Verbix gives them as 'fraihn' and 'frathj', but I'm sure...
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gutdwala
Jul 4, 2007 6:17 am
Well, I was curious about the Tabula Gentes and what it says, and googling it all I came up with was an old post from '04 (http:// ...
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llama_nom
Jul 4, 2007 6:28 am
... You are right to be suspicious of Verbix. The imperatives of these two are 'fraihn' and 'frathei'. hvis mik fraihnis? fraihn þans hausjandans hva...
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faltin2001
Jul 4, 2007 5:49 pm
... Hi Oscar, can you be a bit more precise please. Which Roman legions were driven out of Spain by the Visigoths? The Visigoths were the Roman federate army....
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faltin2001
Jul 4, 2007 6:15 pm
... Hi Ingemar, I'm afraid the Goths that you tell about most of the time are indeed fantasy. Also the assumption that the Goths should have two sets of ... ...
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faltin2001
Jul 4, 2007 6:28 pm
... Hi Oscar, you have permission to call me Dirk or Mr Faltin or Dr Faltin ... but just faltin is a bit rude. I also don't address you as herrera. think about...
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amicus@...
alexiuscomnenus
Jul 4, 2007 9:11 pm
<<I recommend Herwig Wolfram's standard work on the Goths for the basic tenants of Gothic history.>> Thanks! I just found a copy at amazon dot com....
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Michael Erwin
bty877030
Jul 5, 2007 12:11 am
I'm not sure the Wenskus/Wolfram model really applies to the Goths. We can look at Heather's non-Wenskusian model of ethnogenesis, although I don't think...
