Gothic Year/Season Words

[Francisc Czobor]

But counting age in winters **is** attested in Wulfila's Bible:
"unte dauhtar ainoho was imma swe ** wintriwe twalibe **, jah so swalt."
"For he had one only daughter, about ** twelve years ** of age, and she 
lay a dying."
[Luke 8:42, in Codex Argenteus]

Francisc

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "akoddsson" <konrad_oddsson at ...> wrote:
> ...
> 
> Phrases like 'X winters old' (counting age in winters/years) are very 
> typically Norse. Indeed, they seem to have been universal there. One 
> could likely reconstruct this for Gothic, as well, if parallels are 
> not already found in writing (Wulfila), in which case we should look 
> to these first. 





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