[gothic-l] Re: A new word

Francisc Czobor fericzobor at YAHOO.COM
Fri Jan 7 15:56:52 UTC 2005


Hi, Fredrik,

*anuds (feminine i-stem) looks OK. But it is possible also *anuþs.

Francisc

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Fredrik" <gadrauhts at h...> wrote:
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> I don't do much so i think about words in gothic which i cannot 
find 
> in any dicctionary. Now it's the gothic word for duck. I have 
> searched for it in all dicctionaries I know about on internet but 
> without finding any so i took the freedom to recreate it instead.
> I wonder if you think this is ok or if not.
> 
> The word in swedish is 'and' (or in another form 'anka') and the 
> german is 'ente'. Acording to some books and dicctionaries (like 
> runeberg.org) this comes from *anuðiz.
> I guess this would have been 'anuds' in gothic, and an i-stem.
> The icelandic önd and the german ente is both feminine so  
therefore 
> I guess the gothic word also is feminine.
> 
> Comments please!
> 
> /Fredrik





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