century, events, deaths

[ualarauans]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Lombard" <manielombard at ...> wrote:
>
> I don't know what you mean by the last question 
concerning "jaarhonderd" :((( A
> decade is "tiental" (tal = number) in Afrikaans. Decade used for 
years is
> "dekade" or "tydperk van tien jaar".

Then tigus is tiental, and *wintru-tigus or, simply, taihun 
wintrjus/jera is dekade, I guess :)

> For "century" we use "eeu" or "jaarhonderd" :))) (I think in Dutch 
only "eeuw"
> is used, but I'm not sure.

So you do use jaarhonderd! Oops... I didn't know it. I thought such 
a construct (calque from German) would sound clumsy and foreign, 
though understandable, in the same way as *wintru-hund would have 
sounded to a Gothic ear. Perhaps this is the case with Dutch, but 
I'm quite not sure now. And, where could we get a Gothic ear to test 
our assumptions, eh? In a Czerniachów burial somewhere between 
Dnieper and the Danube?

> Do you perhaps have any idea how "list of years" could be 
translated into
> Gothic? I know, quite a lot of questions :)))

What about *jera-tala F.-o or –tal N.-a? I remember ON tal used for 
lists of names, e.g. konungatal "list of kings".

P.S. Questions are OK! Altyd welkom!

> Thanks dear Ualarauans. Baie dankie
> 
> Groete, Manie
>    ----- Original Message -----
>    From: ualarauans
>    To: gothic-l at yahoogroups.com
>    Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 2:05 PM
>    Subject: [gothic-l] Re: century, events, deaths
> 
> 
>    --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Lombard" <manielombard at ...> 
wrote:
>    >
>    > Thanks, and a decade with taihun (pl tigjus?)
> 
>    taihun jere, perhaps. And "decade-long" (zehnjährig) is
>    *taihunwintrus. I wonder if something like *wintru-
tigus "decade" and
>    *wintru-hund "century" are thinkable? Or is it the same as to 
say
>    jaarhonderd in Dutch or Afrikaans?

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