Trouble with Goats (feminine i-stem? consonant stem?)

[llama_nom]

Aha, I see what the trouble is with 'gaits'.  David Salo lists it 
wrongly in his first lesson as a masculine a-stem.  It's even given as 
masculine in the glossary of Joseph Wright's Grammar of the Gothic 
Language.  But Streitberg's dictionary calls it a feminine i-stem.  It 
must be feminine, unless the Gothic manuscript is unclear at this 
point (*the word is only recorded once*).

jah gaits [·a·] gamanwida was mis
and one goat was prepared for me
Nehemiah 5,18

The past participle has the feminine adjectival ending -a.

Another possibility besides being an i-stem, is that 'gaits' was a 
consonant stem, like 'baurgs' "town".  This latter guess would agree 
with the declension of the word in Old English and Old Norse--both 
feminine.





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