[gothic-l] Re: A new word, Gothic birds, etc.

[Grsartor at AOL.COM]

Hi, Sigi,

thank you for your explanation of some of the distinctions between "faur" and 
"faura". There is a qualification I should like to add.about two of the given 
examples, namely

warþ þan, miþþanei nehva was is Iaireikon, blinda sums 
sat faur wig du aihtron. (Lk 18:35). 
It now happened that, while He was near Jericho, some 
blind guy sat begging on this side of the road. 

and

jah galaiþ aftra faur marein, jah all manageins 
iddjedun du imma, jah laisida ins (Mk 2:13).
And He went back in front of the sea (to this side of the 
sea), and all the multitudes went towards Him, and He 
taught them. 

In both these sentences "faur" translates Greek para + accusative. Liddell 
and Scott's Lexikon gives "beside" as its principal meaning. Now a dictionary is 
no substitute for thorough knowledge, which I lack, but the interpretation 
"beside" agrees with published translations. If this speculation is right then 
it would be better in the first example above to drop the reference to a 
particular side of the road.

Another meaning of "faura" is "because of":

jah ni magandans nehwa qiman imma faura manageim  (Mark 2:4)
and not being able to come near him because of the crowd(s)

iþ biþe gabauran ist barn, ni þanaseiþs ni gaman þizos aglons faura fahedai 
unte gabaurans warþ manna in fairhwau. (John 16:21)
but when the child is born she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that 
a person has been born in the world.

Gerry T.


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