[gothic-l] Days of the Week - revised

[llama_nom]

More on the Gothic week, including a revised version of Saturday:


THE BIBLICAL EVIDENCE.  In the Bible, we find an indeclinable 
sabbato "sabbath", as well as sabbatus, with the confused i/u-
declension common to many Biblical loanwords.  Also: fruma 
sabbato "the day before the sabbath" = Gk. prosabbaton (Mk 15,42), 
although the same expression is used at Mk 16,9 for "on the day after 
the sabbath": frumin sabbato (Gk. prootee sabbatou) - perhaps a 
mistake.  The more reasonable afarsabbatus dags, for "the day after 
the sabbath" is attested in the genitive at Mk 16,2: this afarsabbate 
dagis (=Gk. tees mias sabbatoon).  Gk. sabbaton is also rendered as 
Got. sabbato/sabbatus dags, reminiscent of the day naming practice in 
other Germanic languages.

AN IMPLICATION.  The pairing of fruma sabbato & afarsabbatus dags 
suggests that the second Yule month was called Afarjiuleis (rather 
than Anthar Jiuleis, or Aftuma Jiuleis), thus:

OE Aerra Geola = Got. Fruma Jiuleis
OE Aefterra Geola = Got. Afarjiuleis

SURVIVALS.  Much more can be guessed about the Gothic week from 
borrowed day names which have survived in Eastern European languages, 
especially the southern German dialects.  It seems there existed a 
set of Gothic day names derived from Greek.  These originated in 
popular, rather than learned, Greek and are thought to have been 
spread by the Goths.  Here is a list, based on such reconstructions:

*FRAUJINSDAGS?  "lord's day" (calque on Gk. hee kureiakee) - Swiss G 
Frontag = Sunday; alternatively: *KIRIKADAGS "church day", based 
directly on the Gk.  According to one theory, the Goths may have been 
responsible for the diffusion of the word "church", and its cognates, 
among the Germanic languages.
* ?
*ARJAUSSDAGS, or *Areinsdags ( < Gk. areeos heemera) - NHG Arestag, 
Ertag, Irtag, Irchtag, Erchtag, Erichtag
*MIDJAWIKO? - NHG Mittwoch, Pol. S'roda, etc.
*PINTADAGS, or *paintedags ( < Gk. pemptee heemera) - Pfinztag - NHG 
dialects: Pfincztag, Pfünztag, Phinztag
*PAREINSDAGS ( < Gk. paraskeuee) - Pol. pia,tek (That comma there is 
supposed to be a nasal mark under the "a"), Cz. Pátek
*SAMBATODAGS ( < Gk. Sambaton) - OHG sambaztag > NHG Samstag; OBulg. 
Sabota, Rum. Sambata, Hung. Szombat, Pers. Samba

See entries in Köbler for: Arjausdags, Paintedags, Pareinsdags, 
Sabbato

& Dr. theol. Manfred Beckert-Huberti
http://www.festjahr.de/woche/html

As stated above, each "day" began at sunset, thus Monday night would 
probably have been *Arjausnahts.

Llama Nom





------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> 
Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar.
Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free!
http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/wWMplB/TM
--------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 

You are a member of the Gothic-L list.  To unsubscribe, send a blank email to <gothic-l-unsubscribe at egroups.com>. 
Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gothic-l/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    gothic-l-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/