More Neologisms

[llama_nom]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "brianbeck_au" <babeck at a...> wrote:

> It is indirectly attested in Tacitus' Germania:
> "....sucinum, quod ipsi glesum vocant", "...amber, which they 
> themselves (i.e. the Germans) call 'glesum'".



And Pliny mentions amber islands called 'Glesiae' (Naturalis 
historia IV, 103).  Tacitus's neuter form agrees perfectly with OE 
glær.  I gather that the <e> in 'glesum' wasn't confined to East 
Germanic in the 1st century.



> fair-weit, na. curiosity.

Compare Go. 'fairweitl' "a spectacle"; OE 'fyrwit' "curiosity".



> gauma-wairþs, a. noteworthy, interesting.

Literally: "worthy of attention", "worth taking notice of".  
Go. 'gaumjan' "perceive"; Go. *'gauma', ON 'gaum' "attention" (see 
Koebler).  Google says the Norse word was borrowed into Scots 
as 'gaum', from which comes the colloqial English word 'gormless'.  
Likewise, 'spilla-wairþs' "worth telling", "worthy of reporting".



> in-wageins, fi/o. emotion.
> us-wageins, fi/o. excitement.

Literally "in-motion" and "out-motion" respectively.  From the 
attested verbs 'inwagjan' and 'uswagjan'.  Used transitively, both 
could mean "stir up", "excite" (e.g. a crowd).  
Relfexively, 'inwagjan sik' means "to be moved", "to feel deep 
emotion" (used of Jesus's rection to the death of Lazarus).



> qiu-sahts, fi. film, movie.
> hugi-sahts, fi. idea.

Another calque on Icelandic: 'kvikmynd' "film"; 'hugmynd' "idea".  
Compare Go. 'fri-sahts' "image"; 'in-
sahts' "statement"; 'qius' "alive"; 'hugs' "mind" (masculine i-stem).

Llama Nom




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