[gothic-l] GUTANI WIHAILAG

[Francisc Czobor]

Hi, Dirk,

I write 'GUTANI WIHAILAG' because it is in Gothic and because it's
from my country, Romania. In fact, the runes read GUTANI?WIHAILAG,
where ? is for the illegible rune at the place of the fracture of the
necklace. I know that there are still controversies regarding the
interpretation of this text, but I personally think that it is not
very plausible the interpretation of GUTANI as 'gutane' = 'good'.
First: indeed, in German 'gut' = 'good', but in Gothic 'good' is
goths/goda-, so the genitive plural, weak adjectival declension,
would be 'godane', not 'gutane'.
Second: it doesn't make sense in this context to put the
adjective 'good' in genitive plural. But the substantive "Goth" in
genitive plural - "of the Goths" is more meaningful.
So I still prefer to consider that the most plausible interpretation
of GUTANI is 'gutane' = 'of the Goths'.

With best regards,
Francisc


--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "faltin2001" <dirk at s...> wrote:
> ...
> Hi Francisc,
>
> I see that you write 'GUTANI WIHAILAG'. Did you know that the
latest
> investigation on the original ring suggests that the best reading
of
> the inscription is 'gutane jer weih hailag', which is a blessing
for
> a good year, with 'gutane' meaning 'good' . Hence, the name of the
> Goths is probably not on the ring.
>
> Cheers
> Dirk




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