Some thoughts about endings etc.

[Fredrik]

The english ending -er on verbs, making them nouns in such words as 
bringer, lover, jumper etc. has equal endings in gothic like -areis, -
ands/-andi and perhaps also -ja.

Is it right that the ending -ja (masc. weak) can this meaning?
Like garahnja from garahnjan. And is it also possible to just have 
the ending -a in some words?

About the other endings, which is most common and which do you prefer?

I use the ending -ands mostly, but I don't realy know how to use it.
Should I use it as nd-stem like frijonds and nasjands, ro should I 
use em like adjectives with nd-endings?
E.g. bringer = briggands, which could be interpreted as 'the bringing 
one' and in that case 'bringing' is an adjective.

I also have a word question for you.

A word for meal, which in oe was melu and comes from wgmc melwan. 
Could this have an equalent in gothic?
Has the word melwan come from malwjan via i-umlaut?
I saw gothic had a word for grind that was gamalwjan and began to 
think it might be so...If not. could the word have become milwan in 
gothic (and the verb might not be necessary though a similar word 
exist). But the noun meal has come from pgmc *melwa- according to 
runeberg. This make sense that oe has melu and swedish has mjöl.
I have no idea what gender this is etc. but in gothic I think this 
word would be like milw- and if it is, let's say masc. it could be 
milws or, used as wa-stem, milus (gen. milwis). If it is neutre it 
would be milw or milu (gen. milwis). Any ideas about this???
Maybe there already is a word for this, but I haven't found any with 
this meaning, only some with close similarity.


What do you know about the name of swedes?
In wikipedia it says the pgmc word could have been swihoniz or 
sweoniz. If it was swihoniz this would have been swaíhans in gothic 
and if it was sweoniz it would have been swians.
I guess they are masc. n-stems both?
I have seen some other suggestions in gothic such as sweos (pl.) and 
swijans...what do you think about this???

/Fredrik






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