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<p>--- In <a href="mailto:gothic-l%40yahoogroups.com">gothic-l@yahoogroup<wbr>s.com</a>, "Ian Ragsdale" <delvebelow@<wbr>...> wrote:<br>
><br>
> aiws seems to have the connotation of neverendingness or eternity, <br>
while<br>
> alds seems to refer more to a specific age or generation. With my <br>
modern<br>
> bent, I would be inclined to consider any wrapped-up piece of time <br>
to be an<br>
> ald. But to the Goth, 100 years was certainly a longer time than we<br>
> consider it to be today, so perhaps aiws is more applicable as it is <br>
longer<br>
> than any human would be expected to live.<br>
<br>
An interesting remark. I, too, think that time ran much slowlier in <br>
the 5th century CE (in fimftin aiwa afar Xristu gabauranana) than in <br>
the 21st (subjectively)<wbr>. Though that was also a time of swift change <br>
in the world – the Roman Empire fell, the Middle Age started, the <br>
Goths having been despised Barbarians became masters of the West, the <br>
Huns came from the East etc etc. BTW the famous Ermanaric lived longer <br>
than 100 years if we believe the legend about him. But that was <br>
certainly an exception.<br>
<br>
Incidentally, Go. aiws as well as Gr. AIWN which it translates<br>
(< *aiwôn), Lat. aeuum etc did originally correlate with the span of <br>
human life. Go. juggs (< *juwungaz), Lat. iuuenis, Lith. jaunas, Slav. <br>
junU, Irish ôac, Cymr. ieuanc, OInd. yúvan- - all meaning "young" – <br>
are derived from the same PIE root. In Germanic, we have *ei(g)wô "yew-<br>
tree" (> OE íw, éow; OHG îwa; ON ýr) coming from this root too. Looks <br>
like the yew-tree was the Germanic `etz hayyim, "tree of life" (cf. <br>
Hittitic eia). The word in Gothic would be *eiwa F.-o, compound *eiwa-<br>
bagms "yew-tree" (like smakka-bagms, alewa-bagms, baira-bagms)<wbr>, *eiwa <br>
also as the name of the elder rune #13/14.<br>
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