New to the List, Learning Gothic

[mike r]

Yeah I am studying off of this:

http://members.terracom.net/~dorothea/david/gothic/lesson1.html



--- OSCAR HERRERA <duke.co at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> haf ju latjan so laisareins ana so nati...have you
> checked the internet for lessons....hails gaman sah
> razda ist raiht faur mannan,galeikaida
> unsara....oscar
> 
> Mike <raging_viking at yahoo.com> wrote:  Greetings!
> 
> I am new to the list and I joined because of my
> research into the
> Gothic language. I think that it is a very
> beautiful, fascinating, and
> complex language and I am having alot of fun
> learning it. 
> 
> I am amazed by how many modern english words can be
> transmuted into
> Gothic with a high degree of accuracy, and I am even
> taking some
> amusing liberties with it, for an example I turned
> the word "jive"
> into a gothic equivalant: jeivan just by following
> the rules of the
> ablaut (i turns into ei and the e at the end is
> dropped and is
> replaced with -an).
> 
> This is the very first language that I have ever
> attempted outside of
> English. Some of it is a bit confusing, for an
> example, they use the
> word "the" in two different contextes, for an
> example:
> 
> Example of Sa used:
> Sa hunds ni beitith
> The hound [do]not bite.
> 
> Example of Thai used:
> Thai wulfos beitand
> The wolves bite
> 
> And if you look above, "ni" means "do not" or "does
> not", yet the word
> "does" is not in front of "ni"! Why is this? 
> 
> And for some reason, if the noun is singular, the
> verb ends with -ith,
> but if the noun being referred to is plural, the
> verb ends with -and.
> I am also wondering why the present singular strong
> verb "beitan" ends
> with -an, why not just "beit"? 
> 
> Just so many questions....I'm hoping that there will
> be someone who
> will be willing to answer some of my questions.
> 
> Salutations!
> Michael
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