Gothic recources online: Vocabulary

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--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "in_odium" <in_odium at y...> wrote:
>

> Post Scriptum - Is there a larger vocabulary of gothic words on that 
> same site?  I haven't had much time to look at it thouroghly since 
> I'm actaully doing all this stuff using a PSP since my computer 
> broke and it loads pages so damned slow, many thanks.


http://www.oe.eclipse.co.uk/nom/linkspage.htm

Gergard Koebler's dictionary [ 
http://www.koeblergerhard.de/publikat.html ] has the vocabulary of the 
small number of Gothic texts to have survived, mainly about half of 
the New Testament and a few pages of a biblical commentary.  It also 
includes reconstructions of words that can be assumed to have existed 
on the basis of the biblical vocabulary, for example where the Gothic 
bible has a noun formed by a derivative suffix, it might be reasonable 
to assume the existence of an adjective, say, especially if this is 
parellelled in other early Germanic languages.  He also includes 
reconstructions based on Gothic loanwords recorded in Latin, the 
Romance languages of southern Europe, Slavonic, etc.  Entries are 
cited in various spelling conventions, mainly that of biblical Gothic, 
but you'll also find phonemic spellings for some reconstructions.  
Crimean Gothic words and the letter names of the Vienna-Salzburg codex 
appear in their recorded forms as well as as reconstructions with 
biblical Gothic spelling.  Definitions in German and English, cited 
together with the equivalent word in the Greek Septuagint and the 
Latin Vulgate bible.

For Latin readers there is a really great resource here, Patrologia 
Latina, Vol. 18: Ulfilas (a translation from the German original of 
Gabelentz & Loebe).  Texts + commentary & grammar, in Latin + Latin-
Gothic and Greek-Gothic dictionaries [ 
http://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Patrologia_Latina_Vol_18_Ulfilas ].  
This is especially useful for its discussion of syntax and word-order.

The best Gothic dictionary online for understanding the grammar of the 
bible and the Skeireins (that biblical commentary) is Wilhelm 
Streitberg's Gotisch-Greichisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch [ 
http://www.wulfila.be/lib/streitberg/1910/ ].  This is a good place to 
look for information on, for example, which case or cases each verb 
and preposition takes, and with what change in meaning, if any.  I've 
found it to be more reliable than other dictionaries on a number of 
occasions.  Also recommended, if you read German at all, is 
Streitberg's Gotische Syntax, available from Winter Verlag.  This has 
a good explanation of "aspect" or "aktionsart", i.e. perfective and 
imperfective (durative) verbs -- an important part of Gothic syntax 
neglected by many simpler grammars.







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