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<p>That is a very encouraging thought, for the record...I guessed wood <br>
right!!! Would the literary style of the novel work in Gothic? <br>
Maybe we should translate some Lewis...<br>
<br>
I'll work on this, but it won't be pretty.<br>
<br>
--- In <a href="mailto:gothic-l%40yahoogroups.com">gothic-l@yahoogroup<wbr>s.com</a>, "ualarauans" <ualarauans@<wbr>...> wrote:<br>
><br>
> --- In <a href="mailto:gothic-l%40yahoogroups.com">gothic-l@yahoogroup<wbr>s.com</a>, Justïn <justinelf@> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > Wow, I just wanted to say, with much pride, that I was able to <br>
> follow<br>
> > and conceptualise that whole explanation.<wbr>..<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> OK, check yourself:<br>
> <br>
> 1. bath < PG *baþan > Go. *baþ<br>
> <br>
> 2. wood < PG *wiðuz > Go. *widus<br>
> <br>
> 3. dwarf < PG *dwergaz > Go. *dwairgs<br>
> <br>
> 4. edge < PG *agjô > Go. *agja<br>
> <br>
> 5. elbow < PG *alinô + PG *bugan- > Go. aleina "elbow" (attested, <br>
> note the irregular –ei-, that is the long [i:] where other <br>
languages <br>
> have a short one) + Go. *buga "bow".<br>
> <br>
> 6. owl < PG *uwwilôn > Go. *uggwilo (Holtzmann's Law: -ww- > -ggw- <br>
> in Gothic).<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Now you are able to write a short story. Translate into Gothic:<br>
> <br>
> 1. Early morning I take a bath 2. After that I put my clothes on, <br>
> take my staff and go to the wood 3. There I see a dwarf sitting <br>
> under a tree, on the very edge of the wood 4. He's sleeping 5. I <br>
> push him with my elbow 6. The dwarf gets awake, sees me and climbs <br>
> up the tree very quickly 7. Now he's looking pretty like an owl <br>
> sitting on a twig 8. He wishes he would fly away.<br>
> <br>
> It's in historical present, not to complicate things for you with <br>
> syntetic preterite. Don't try to be always literal (to translate <br>
> word-for-word)<wbr>, just use all the words we have reconstructed. To <br>
> form the present 1st person singular ("I do/am doing something") <br>
> just drop the final –n off the verbal infinitive. Don't use the <br>
> pronoun (it's the same as e.g. in Spanish). That is, "I take" <br>
> is 'nima' (from 'niman' "to take"). The 3rd person singular <br>
> (he/she/it does/is doing smth) ends in –iþ for the verbs used in <br>
the <br>
> story. "He's sleeping" is 'slepiþ' (from 'slepan' "to sleep"). The <br>
> last sentence is in subjunctive, but you can have a simpler <br>
> translation.<br>
> <br>
> Some vocabulary you need:<br>
> <br>
> early morning – air uhtwon<br>
> <br>
> clothes – wasti F.-jo (that is, feminine jo-stem)<br>
> <br>
> staff – hrugga F.-o<br>
> <br>
> to push – stigqan<br>
> <br>
> to get awake - gawaknan<br>
> <br>
> to climb up – ussteigan<br>
> <br>
> to look like – wisan galeiks (lit. "to be like") + noun in dative <br>
> ("he's looking like A." is 'ist galeiks A.'). Don't forget to put <br>
> the A. ("owl" in our case) in dative. Consult your textbook on <br>
> dative singular of feminine n-stems.<br>
> <br>
> > I was really hoping I'd be able to journal in Gothic but the <br>
nature<br>
> > of journaling implies that I'd be fluent enough to represent a<br>
> > natural daily thought spontaneously in Gothic, whereas I'm getting<br>
> > the idea now that it would be such an effort and require so many<br>
> > resources to coin neologisms and reconstructions that it'd be <br>
very,<br>
> > very laboured, much too much for journaling.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> That depends on what your natural daily thoughts are about :) If <br>
you <br>
> dream of knights, battles, sacking, pillaging, marauding etc Gothic <br>
> is quite OK. But if it's about electronics, PCs, oil import, smart <br>
> weapons, flight to Mars and presidential elections in the USA, <br>
> you'll have some hard time with reconstructing new vocabulary items <br>
> and getting our "probo" certificate for them :)<br>
> <br>
> Perhaps you should know one more thing about Gothic (sai, runa <br>
izwis <br>
> qiþa). The fact is that Gothic is the simplest language I've ever <br>
> met, with the possible exception of Esperanto. Of the dead <br>
> languages, it is much easier to study than Latin and can't be even <br>
> compared in this respect with Ancient Greek. When you approach <br>
> Hebrew or Old Church Slavonic you start to think Gothic was just a <br>
> children's game. If you'll ever try to reconstruct Alanic, you'll <br>
> understand how elementary the rules of making Gothic from PG are. <br>
> All in all, Gothic is very simple (not to say primitive), "and <br>
> that's a very encouraging thought" – (c)<br>
> <br>
> Ualarauans<br>
><br>
<br>
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