Archaeological Word-List (Part of)

[ualarauans]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Michael Erwin <merwin at ...> wrote:
>
> Chernyakhov -
> 
> I suggest either *Qernjahifs or *[90]ernjahifs as a 
transliteration.
> *Q or *[90] to represent the initial Ch-. (Ualarauans made the same
> [90] suggestion here). H to represent the Kh. Russian and Ukrainian
> have no H; Gothic has no Kh. I to represent the Russian O or
> Ukrainian I.

Ukrainian -iv alternates with –ov- in oblique cases (Chorn'akhiv, 
gen. Chorn'akhova) and this –ov- is etymologically primary here 
corresponding to Russian –ov, Polish -ow (with an acute mark above 
in nominative pronounced as [u]) and ultimately to Proto-Slavic 
possessive ending –ovu. So I think the Gothic form should keep -of 
in nominative. What of the vowel in the first syllable, it is short 
(Slavic doesn't distinguish long and short vowels) also 
etymologically (going back to Proto-Slavic chrnu with a vocalic [r] 
meaning "black") and hence should be written with /aí/ (pronounced 
[e]) in Gothic, all the more so that it stands before /r/ where 
Gothic has the breaking /i/ > /aí/). If you hate using /x/ for [kh], 
the best option in my opinion is to write /k/, not /h/. Whether the 
whole word would get masculine ending –s is rather dubious. Compare 
fogeign masculine names in the Bible: Iosef, dat. Iosefa and Ioseba 
etc without –s. Finally, maybe we should re-organize the name 
according to Gothic rules for compounds so that cairnja- would 
become cairni- as the quasi first element, but I'm not sure here
– cf. hrainja-hairts.

What's your suggestion of representing koppa in writing? Why not to 
use /c/? Cairjaxof:Cairnikof looks (to me) quite elegant.

We could go a step forward and think of a phonetic use of sampi 
[900]. Maybe we could reserve it for [sh]? How is it to be 
transliterated then?

> Artifact -
> 
> How about *mana-waurstw then?

Yes, that's good. Do we have a word for "artificial"? It may be
mana-waurhts (after your suggestion) or attested handu-waurhts "hand-
made". Is there some important semantic difference which I fail to 
see?

> Material Culture -
> 
> *Kultura in aigina (or another word for goods and structures and 
so on)?
> 
> *Kultura in manawaurstwa?

I think we could start thinking of the opposition "material – 
spiritual". The latter is attested as ahmeins and is usually 
contrasted with leikeins "bodily" in the Bible. Correct me if I'm 
wrong. Ahmeina kultura for "spiritual culture" seems OK, but 
leikeins for "material"... I think we need smth another here.

> Settlement -
> 
> use words for village, town, city, etc?

Saliþwa is attested in plural for settlements or rather shelters or 
guest-houses, but it is formed from saljan "to inhabit". Sali-staþs 
would suggest unattested sals M.-i for "settlement" combined with 
staþs M.-i "place". It's interesting to know whether Cairnjaxobiskai 
salistadeis (pl.) could be named baurgs "cities" in the true sense 
of the word. Wasn't it "fortificated settlement" originally?

Ualarauans

P.S. And yes, Ukrainian does have [h] represented graphically by 
what is Russian [g] (like Dutch /g/).

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