[gothic-l] Re: The numbers

James Young daddio52 at SBCGLOBAL.NET
Sat Jul 17 00:53:13 UTC 2004


Francisco,

Please, your answer to Fredrik was so thorough, mabe you can help me.

What do you know about Gothic calendars, historical (4th or 5th C CE) and/or modern? And, as Mother always insisted, how do I say "please" and "thank-you"?

Thank-you.

Jim


Francisc Czobor <fericzobor at yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear Fredrik,

According to Streitberg's "Gotisches Elementarbuch", the following
Gothic numbers are attested:
1-12, 14, 15, 20, 30, 32, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 84, 90, 99, 100, 200,
300, 500, 900, 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 10000, 20000.
The missing number between 11 and 20 can be reconstructed by analogy
as follows:
13: *threistaihun or *thrijataihun
16: *saihstaihun
17: *sibuntaihun
18: *ahtautaihun
19: *niuntaihun
The compound numbers between 21-99 should be formed, by analogy with
the attested ones, as follows: (multiple of ten) + jah "and" +
(number of units)
Thus:
21: *twai tigjus jah ains
22: *twai tigjus jah twai (or: *twai tigjus jah anthar)
23: *twai tigjus jah threis
24: *twai tigjus jah fidwor
etc. etc.

Francisc

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Fredrik" <gadrauhts at h...> wrote:
> I would like to know the numbers in gothic.
> I know some of them but not all.
> Some of the numbers i don't know are:
> 0, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24 etc. up to 100.
>
> You may send the answer to gadrauhts at h...
>
> /Fredrik



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