Some questions for you who might know

[llama_nom]

Go. 'aiz' (i.e. *ais) occurs just once (Mk 6:8).

jah faurbauþ im ei waiht ni nemeina in wig, niba hrugga aina, nih 
matibalg nih hlaif nih in gairdos aiz

"forbade them to take anything on the way, except one staff, neither 
a bag for food, nor bread, nor money in their belts"

According to Strong's bible dictionary, CALKOS means "copper (the 
substance, or some implement or coin made of it)" or "brass" 
or "money" [ 
http://www.htmlbible.com/sacrednamebiblecom/kjvstrongs/STRGRK54.htm ]
.  The Gothic word is given as a neuter a-stem by Streitberg, on the 
basis of cognates, although from this one example the declension and 
gender aren't clear.  The OED gives the meaning of the Old English 
cognate as "brass, bronze, copper", which are indeed different 
things, but presumably the word could be used for any of them:

"Old English âr brass, bronze, copper, is cognate with Middle Dutch 
eer, ere copper, metal, Old Saxon êr brass (Middle Low German êr, re 
metal, copper, brass), Old High German êr brass (Middle High German 
êr brass, iron), Old Icelandic eir brass, copper, Old Swedish ér 
copper, bronze, early modern Danish eer copper, ore, Gothic aiz 
money, metal coin < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit ayas 
(base) metal, classical Latin aer-, aes brass."




--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Fredrik" <gadrauhts at ...> wrote:
>
> Hi fellas...hope you are reading this.
> The activity ain't on top nowadays.
> 
> What is the real meaning of the word aiz?
> 
> I have seen both brass, bronze and coin/money.
> Perhaps also metal and ore.
> 
> As you know there's a difference between brass and bronze and if 
the 
> meaning is some of em it couldnt also be metal.
> 
> What ever you think it mean, I'd like you to come up with some 
ideas of 
> the other words.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> /Fredrik
>







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