Warrior Class

[Justïn]

That was an awesome answer Lama, I actually have an obnoxious question 
the likes of which you would expect from an amateur Gothic enthusiast 
who's only had one 4000 level course in linguistics:

How can I learn to do that?  I want to be able to derive my own 
reconstructions from Proto-Germanic and back engineer my own words.  If 
I could do that, I would post list after list of neologisms for 
scholarly criticisms until we had a veritable dictionary of Gothic 
words and phrases.  Granted, this may be coming out of young-blood 
fervour but I am certainly interested in the back-engineering.

Are there any pre-established guides and resources to these Gothic 
patterns, and which Proto-Germanic source are you using and where can I 
get one?

Are we all using the same source for Proto-Germanic or is this in and 
of itself a highly debated issue of favouring this or that resource?

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