millennium

[Lombard]

You're welcome, Ualarauans

But *Mahtiswinþa (might-strong) seems quite plausible though :)))

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ualarauans 
  To: gothic-l at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 6:40 PM
  Subject: [gothic-l] Re: millennium


  --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Lombard" <manielombard at ...> wrote:
  >
  > Hails Walahrabn!

  jah þu ni siukais, Manie!

  > Oops, yes :))) Thanks
  > 
  > So it is faura Xristau, but afar Xristu ? (or faura Xristáus 
  gabauranana; afar
  > Xristáus gabauranamma?)

  faura Xristau gabauranamma and afar Xristu gabauranana respectively. 
  Actually this is a calque from Latin (post aliquem natum "after 
  smbd. was born"), I don't know if it was acceptable to say so in 
  genuine Gothic. The accent on birth may be appropriate since we 
  count years from this precise date (be it real or artificially set 
  later), not from "Christ's time" in general.

  Afar Xristau is not absolutely wrong, I must say. Temporal afar 
  rules accusative, that's right, but u-stems all too often confuse 
  dative and accusative.

  > <Couldn't it also be *Mati-swinþa?
  > 
  > (mats, mati-) meat-(swinþ) strong?

  Why not? More appetizing than *Maþa-swinþa "worm-strong" :) 
  Seriously, I was thinking of "measure-strong" or smth alike.

  Thanks for the quotation from N. Wagner!



   

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