[gothic-l] Re: some questions... (galukan, uslukan)

[llama_nom]

Hails Fredrik,

Yes, unfortunately we're missing Mat 16,19 and Luke 11,52.  There 
would have been a few keys in Revelations too.  Who knows, maybe 
more Gothic manuscripts will come to light one day.  In the 
meantime, I think your idea is the most likely guess.  
Icelandic 'lykill' suggests a Gothic *lukils, masculine a-stem.

Attested is the presumed neuter noun USLUK "hole, opening".  Koebler 
has it with a short vowel, like German 'Loch'.  And the following 
verbs, of which uslukan & galukan have a long vowel in the 
infinitive (strong class 2), and usluknan & galuknan have a short 
root vowel:


uslukan +acc. "open something" +dat. "for someone"

also +acc. "draw" a sword

absolute sense "to open up, open the door/gate" +dat. "for s-one" 
þammuh daurawards uslukiþ "for him the watchman opens up"



galukan +acc. in +dat. "lock/shut someone in a place or state"
galauk Iohannen in karkarai "he locked John in prison"

+dat. or +acc. for doors
galukands haurdai þeinai "shutting your door"
ei guþ uslukai unsis haurd waurdis "so that God may open a door of 
speech for us"


usluknan "be unlocked/opened"

galuknan "be closed, be locked"

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Old English links:

Old English Made Easy (including two-way OE-MnE, MnE-OE dictionary)
http://home.comcast.net/~modean52


Anglo-Saxon dictionaries of Bosworth & Toller, and of JR Clark Hall:
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/language_resources.html

Bosworth & Toller "An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary"--under construction
http://dontgohere.nu/oe/as-bt/
http://bosworthandtoller.co.uk
http://bosworthandtoller.com


Gerhard Koebler has an Old English dictionary here too:
http://www.koeblergerhard.de/publikat.html


Online book: "(The Electronic) Introduction to Old English" by Peter 
S Barker
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/research/rawl/IOE/


Hope that's of use,

Llama Nom





--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Fredrik" <gadrauhts at h...> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Here's some questions.
> 
> 1) A word for 'key' seems to be lacking. The swedish word nyckel 
from 
> older lykil comes from *lukila- and is a form av lukan = shut, 
with a 
> instrumentalsuffix. Is there any form like this in gothic?
> 
> 2) Can some one recomend any site with old english grammar, coz I 
> wanna now which gender some OE words have.
> 
> /fredrik





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