[gothic-l] Digest Number 828

[Ingemar Nordgren]

> Message: 1
>    Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:49:32 EDT
>    From: Grsartor at aol.com
> Subject: Re: Being verbs
>
> About whether the Goths had a word like English "be". Lehmann's Gothic
> Dictionary lists not only Gothic words but also their relations in English, German
> etc. I find no entry for "be" in the list of English relations, or "bin" in the
> corresponding German list. I should guess that the word is not represented in
> Gothic, even though it has kin in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit.


Hi,

Sigmund Feist  has a fitting word for "be", namely 'wisan' which  can
mean Germ.'sein', Engl. 'to be' , to be available, but also
'bleiben','remain' and 'angehören','belong to'. Pres.3 pers. becomes 'nist'.

Best
Ingemar



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