[gothic-l] Re: du usfilhan ana gastim

[llama_nom]

Hi Lucia,

Interesting.  Have you read this article or do you know what 
Durante's opinion was about the phrase?  E.g. whether DU USFILHAN is 
passive, and whether ANA refers to the field or to GASTIM?

Llama Nom




--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Lucia Sinisi" <luciasinisi at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> there is an article dedicated to the construction of this phrase  
by E. Durante, unfortunately in italian: 
> E. Durante, "'Du usfilhan ana gastim'. La funzione di 'ana' e il 
costrutto 'du' con l'infinito in gotico, Biblioteca di Ricerche 
Linguistiche e Filologiche, Roma: Il Calamo, 1974, 40 pp.
> 
> Lucia S.
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Grsartor at a... 
>   To: gothic-l at yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 8:03 AM
>   Subject: Re: [gothic-l] Salo Test -- further thoughts & was 
Wulfila one person??
> 
> 
>   About the Gothic phrase
> 
>       du usfilhan ana gastim
> 
>   which translates the Greek
> 
>       eis taphén tois xenois:
> 
>   How is the Gothic to be construed? The Greek seems to be "into 
(i.e. for the 
>   purpose of) burial for strangers", though my Greek is too ropy 
for me to 
>   pronounce confidently on this. The Revised Standard Version of 
Matthew has "to bury 
>   strangers in". To make the Gothic match the Greek, the 
infinitive could be 
>   taken as passive, since Gothic sometimes uses the active 
infinitive in this way; 
>   e.g. Matthew 6:1 "du saihwan im" = to be seen by them. If  in 
addition the 
>   use of "ana" here is taken to be adverbial, the sense is "for 
strangers to be 
>   buried on". 
> 
>   As for the list of dative verbs that llama_nom provided 
recently, "gahwotjan" 
>   (= rebuke, threaten) could be added.
> 
>   Gerry T.
> 
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