century, events, deaths

[Lombard]

Or should we use aiws, Western Germanic being nearer to Gothic (Eastern Germanic), or am I wrong there?


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: llama_nom 
  To: gothic-l at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 5:34 AM
  Subject: [gothic-l] Re: century, events, deaths


  --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Lombard" <manielombard@> wrote:
  > >
  > > 
  > > Does anyone have a suggestion how "century" could be translated 
  > into Gothic?

  --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans at ...> wrote:
  >
  > 
  > aiws (Dutch eeuw)?

  Or alds (like Icelandic öld, which can mean both "era, age" and
  "century", nítjánda öldin "the 19th century"), or if the context
  didn't make it clear whether you were meant "era" or "century", you
  could always go with the obvious: taihuntehund jere "a hundred years",
  twa hunda jere "two hundred years", etc.

  LN



   

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