Gothic Year/Season Words

[akoddsson]

Thank you for the example (below), Francisc. This does settle the 
matter. Goths count in winters ;)

Regards,
Konrad

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Francisc Czobor" <fericzobor at ...> 
wrote:
>
> 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@> 
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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