Re: [gothic-l] Re: is þar sind correct as they are?

Dicentis a roellingua@gmail.com [gothic-l] gothic-l at yahoogroups.com
Sun Mar 1 23:23:30 UTC 2015


I agree Marja. I 'm currently working on a Gothic Grammar wiki which is
intended to give a good and comprehensible oversight, for both enthousiasts
with no linguistic knowledge and academics or linguists of the Gothic
language and I included a Gothic idioms part too, I can include what Marja
suggests too, a list with most frequently used words.

http://gothicgrammar.wikia.com/wiki/Gothicgrammar_Wiki



2015-03-01 23:25 GMT+01:00 Marja Erwin marja-e at riseup.net [gothic-l] <
gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>:

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> On Mar 1, 2015, at 3:04 PM, Dicentis a roellingua at gmail.com [gothic-l] <
> gothic-l at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> > Marja, I recommend Lambdins book to learn Gothic.
>
> Thank you. I have Wright’s and Bennett’s, already. I see that Lambdin’s
> should be easier to learn from, although Wright’s is easier to refer to.
>
> At this point, I am more interested in understanding Gothic history,
> society, and so on, than in learning the whole language. I think Heather
> and Matthews, “The Goths in the Fourth Century,” is the best intro there.
>
> And for the relationship between language and society, Green’s “Language
> and History in the Early Germanic World,” is a good follow-on.
>
> I think, either way, a good solid glossary, from Gothic to [modern
> language] and [modern language] to Gothic, with a sense of the frequencies
> of these words in biblical Gothic, (e.g. Sacred: weih- (often), hailag-
> (never).), would be useful.
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>
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