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

[llama_nom]

Or better still, *fahis-aujos, like 'sigis-laun'.


--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> > "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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