[gothic-l] Translating creeds?

[OSCAR HERRE duke.co@sbcglobal.net [gothic-l]]

well I speak it like English may be the problem......sentence wise..... 


On Thursday, January 1, 2015 3:09 PM, "Dicentis a roellingua at gmail.com [gothic-l]" <gothic-l at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
  


  
Oscar, I 'm serious when I ask this, but where do you learn Gothic? You have been around here for several years and I don't really know where the Gothic dialect which you speak comes from, because I can't find it anywhere in the Gothic Bible.


2015-01-01 17:49 GMT+01:00 OSCAR HERRE duke.co at sbcglobal.net [gothic-l] <gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>:

 
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>is to get....gitan?....wow that word slipped out....
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>On Thursday, January 1, 2015 10:43 AM, "Marja Erwin marja-e at riseup.net [gothic-l]" <gothic-l at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>I’m trying my hand at a Gothic translation of the Creed of Constantinople of 360.
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>Anyway, not at all skilled, and working from English and Latin rather than
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>Galaubjan +du +dative for “believe in” and “credere +in” - the Gospel of John seems to use the same construction.
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>Alwaldands for “almighty” and “omnipotens” - the Gothic and English words don’t mean the same thing.
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>fram þammei ??? sind. for “of whom are all things” and “ex quo sunt omnia” - what is the Gothic for everything, should it be in the nominative or dative, and should it be before or after the verb?
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>Aso, I expect trouble translating “begotten,” “according to the scriptures,” “as it is written,” etc. At least this one doesn’t involve “ousia”!
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>Any suggestions?
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