Does Gothic include a feminine noun-ending equivalent to the masculine -areis? I know that English -ess (often alternates with masc. -er) and -rix (*always*...
... Corresponding to the masculine -a, -ja (þarba, kasja), there's feminine -o, -jo (haiþno, kalkjo). A feminine o-stem can correspond to a masculine a-stem...
... Old Norse has a term 'blauðr' "soft, weak; female (of animals); effeminate, cowardly", with the same root as the Gothic verb 'blauþjan'. It's used in a...
Well, is the Gothic translation a translation of (A) the ideal Greek text as reconstructed by modern scholars (B) the ideal Greek text as understood by Wulfila...
Hails, What are the current scholarly estimates of the Chernyakhov Culture population? I've worked out some of my own based on the estimates for the Roman...
Mike, I suppose it would be of interest for you to look at results of a skull investigation accomplished by a Ukrainian anthropologist. The translation of the...
Hi, Did history provide us with the child name, so to speak, of Theodoric, king of the OstroGoths ? I mean it cannot have been Theodoric ? Theodoric, must come...
Call for Papers The Heroic Age accepts papers on any topic within the geographical (Northwestern Europe) and temporal (300-1200) boundaries of the journal at...
Hails alls, Though I am 'new' here at this time, it wasn't always so. This is Valulfr, and I have returned to enjoy to dialog here once again. I have a...
... I think he just took the word already existent and changed its meaning. Adding the suffix –sl was not his way of forming new words afaik. It is generally...
Dear colleagues, The website Moneta (Moneta bvba <http://www.cultura-net.com/moneta>) is updated with a new group of books in press. - Les monnaies et les...
Hails Ualarauans, Thanks for clearing that up, I think I picked up the association from Grimm. After looking into this further I found this from the...
Hails, Walawulf! I can't see what direct etymological connection there could be between ON 'skyrsi' and Go. 'skohsl'. If there is any kinship, perhaps it's ...
Did the Goths have particular word their Warrior Class? .for the Leadership for their Warrior Class? I'm wondering if they had a functionally equivalent word...
Hi Rutgur, An employed fighter/warrior (cf. German 'Knecht', Sw. 'knekt') is called 'skalks'. This, however, is in a household and if it has a bearing for...
Hail Rutgur and Ingemar, There is also the 'drauhtin' or 'war-lord'. I'm not sure what exactly the function was on the battle field, but I do that the word...
Skalks is actually a slave (most often = Gr. DOULOS, also OIKETHS "domestic servant", PAIDARION "slave child"). Cf. also ga- skalki SUNDOULOS "Mitknecht" –...
... exactly the ... into Old ... lord, and ... It didn't "come down", strictly spoken. It was inherited both by ON and Gothic from PGrm. The Gothic form...
Hail Ualarauans Jah, that's what I meant, should have been more clear on that, thanks. Walawulf ... This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/...
So, where does Knight and Knecht come from? Can you trace those sources and backwords construct it using Proto-Germanic and predicting what the change would...
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