[gothic-l] Re: A grammatical question

hrafnsnest <mimir@smithsys.net> mimir at SMITHSYS.NET
Thu Dec 26 20:42:31 UTC 2002


--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "hrafnsnest <mimir at s...>" <mimir at s...> wrote:
> Hails!
>
> I have a simple grammer question.  It involves a noun declension, say for the wolf.  How would you render the following:
> "The wolves' lair", "the wolf's lair", and "the lair of the wolf".  For the first one I ventured "sa wulfam ligrs".
> I am currently working out of Bennett's Intro. to th Gothic lang., and was having trouble finding the declensions for plural possesive.
> Sael,
> Jeff

Correction.   Plural possesive = gen., therefore > "thize wulfe ligrs"---right?
Jeff


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