Some thoughts about endings etc.

[llama_nom]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "thiudans" <thiudans at ...> wrote:
>
> Nuta seems to use the oldest agentive suffix *-an- which (I've 
read)
> was probably not "active" in word creation during Wulfila's time, 
at
> least, not as much as *-jan-, probably for the latter's greater
> distinctness from simple weak noun endings. Nuta looks like it 
might
> be an ablaut of *natja- "net", thus, nuta = lit. "netter". I've 
also
> read that *-areis (> -er, the most usable creative agentive in 
English
> today) was borrowed from Latin -arius, first through terms of 
office
> or employment concerning trades unique to or identified with 
Romans.


Then there's the ja-stem, also non-productive by Wulfila's time?

hairda "herd"
hairdeis "herdsman"

I suppose even if it's not the most common overall, -ands is the 
suffix most likely to be used for neologisms in the Bible.






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