New file uploaded to gothic-l (ents, Faroes, Christmas)

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> "Antjos, mja.pl." – probably also an i-stem, Anteis?

Campbell (Old English Grammar) has 'ent' down as an i-stem too.  That
would also agree with the general trend for i-stem ethnic names.

> "Faeroe Islands – Fairauja, pl." - -aujos, fjo. pl.?

How about: *fahiza-aujos (supposing that the iz/az stems were
generalised to -iz- in Gothic).  The name comes from an inherited
Indo-European word for sheep, ON fær < PN *fahaz < IE *pokos.

http://runeberg.org/svetym/0254.html

For Christmas, besides *weiha-nahts (and similar: weihons nahts?), we
could have: *jiula (=OE géol) or *jaíhvla (=OE geohhol) -- neuter
plural.  ON jól could be descended from either variant.

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