winja

[Ingemar Nordgren]

Thank you for that! If you are right m y theories are resting on a better foundation. However as allways some considerations must be maintained but still it is encouraging.

Best
Ingemar

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Grsartor at ... wrote:
>
> The Gothic word "winja" is, according to W. P. Lehmann, a feminine noun  with 
> the same nominative and accusative. It occurs in John 10:9, where it  
> translates the Greek "nome", which in the New Revised Standard Version is  "pasture". 
> However, if John 10:9 is the only place "winja" occurs at, I should  have 
> thought that its nominative could as well be reconstructed as "wini", it  then 
> being a noun in the same class as bandi, haiti, and wasti.
>  
> Perhaps comparison with other Germanic tongues would allow a decision to be  
> made between these possibilities, but I am not qualified to give guidance on  
> this. Its kin, again according to Lehmann, include Old Icelandic vin and OHG  
> winne, both meaning meadow, and OI yndi (neuter) and OHG wunna (feminine)  
> meaning happiness.
>  
> Gerry T.
> 
> 
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