[gothic-l] Re: ASILUKVAIRNUS / G. H. BALG

[llama_nom]

Hi Fernando,

Here is the relavant page of Balg's glossary:

http://penguin.pearson.swarthmore.edu/~scrist1/scanned_books/tiff/goth
_balg/b0032.tiff

Actually, you can find this by typing "balg" and "gothic" into 
Google!  The image is a bit small, you can just about read it, and 
look up cited forms in other dictionaries if in doubt.  It says "ass-
mill", basically.

Here is the index:

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/%
7Ekurisuto/germanic/goth_balg_about.html#images

And here is the main page with a whole bunch of other useful books in 
various formats, some easier to use than others...

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/%7Ekurisuto/germanic/language_resources.html

Easier to navigate is Gerhard Koebler's gothic dictionary 
(definitions in English & German, etc.) -

http://www.koeblergerhard.de/publikat.html

If you're looking up the second element of the word, most people 
spell it "qairnus" in the Roman alphabet, although you might 
occasionally find "kwairnus" or "kvairnus", especially in older 
sources.

Here's what The Online Etymological Dictionary has on the Modern 
English word "quern":

quern - O.E. cweorn "hand-mill, mill," from PIE base *gwern- (cf. 
O.N. kvern, O.Fris. quern, O.H.G. quirn, Goth. quirnus; Skt. 
grava "crushing stone;" Lith. girna "millstone," girnos "hand mills;" 
O.C.S. zrunuvi "mills;" Welsh brevan "hand mill").

http://www.etymonline.com/

Llama Nom



--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "F.E.J.D. IV" <visigoth at a...> wrote:
> Dear friends,
> 
> Thank you all for the wonderful reponse concerning asilukairnus.
> 
> I did not see any references to G. H. Balg's Glossary of the Gothic
> Language.
> 
> Should anyone have this tome, I would greatly appreciate HIS 
ANALYSIS
> concerning ASILUKAIRNUS.
> 
> Cheers,
> F.E.J.D
> Fernando
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Ingemar Nordgren" <ingemar at n...> 
wrote:
> > --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "F.E.J.D. IV" <visigoth at a...> 
wrote:
> > > I am wondering if anyone here is aware of or knows something 
about the
> > > word: 
> > > 
> > > << ASILUKAIRNUS >>.
> > > 
> > > I would enjoy to hear what others may know.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > F.E.J.D.
> > 
> > Hi Fernando,
> > 
> > Gothic 'asilu-qaírnus' is according to Streitberger 'Eselmühle', 
which
> > seems to be a mill driven by a donkey going round in circle. Hence
> > 'asilu´is a donkey and 'qaírnus' is a mill. In Swedish mill is 
called
> > 'kvarn' which definitely seems related to 'qaírnus'but the latter 
is
> > equipped with a Latin-influenced ending -us.
> > 
> > Best regards
> > Ingemar



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