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<p>I would assume that Lent (lenten) would correspond to a gothic *laggateins where the latter part is the same as in sinteino and cognate to slavic den = day.<br>
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--- In <a href="mailto:gothic-l%40yahoogroups.com">gothic-l@yahoogroups.com</a>, Grsartor@... wrote:<br>
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> Hailai,<br>
> <br>
> Herewith, a few comments about suggestions for words not attested in <br>
> Gothic, though probably not much in the way of material help.<br>
> <br>
> The season-word we can be the most confident about is "wintrus", occurring <br>
> in John 10:22. "Asans" is attested for summer, but it translates Greek <br>
> words that seem to have a sense of "harvest": theros and therismos. I do not <br>
> know whether for the Greeks the harvest was regarded as part of summer; but <br>
> if so, perhaps Wulfila would have chosen some other word if he had not been <br>
> influenced by the language he was translating.<br>
> <br>
> As for the other seasons, I do not know whether there was much uniformity <br>
> among the Germanic peoples in their names for spring and autumn, since it is <br>
> said they divided the year into only two seasons, winter and summer. The <br>
> German Lenz (cognate with English Lent) is said to derive from len(gi)zin, <br>
> from *langat-tin, which had the meaning "having long days". Icelandic "vor" <br>
> looks like Latin "ver", but whether they are related I do not know.<br>
> <br>
> The word German and English share for "autumn" is Herbst/harvest. How this <br>
> is related to Icelandic "haust", if at all, I do not know.<br>
> <br>
> For a way of saying "too", in a sense that implies excess, perhaps <br>
> "ufar"might be used. It occurs in "ufarfulls" = overfull, and looks like Icelandic <br>
> of/ofur, which has the same sense. However, "ufar" by no means seems to <br>
> have a general tendency to indicate excess: for example "ufargaggan" means to <br>
> go over, to cross, rather than to go too far, and there are several other <br>
> constructions that have "ufar" not implying that something has been done to <br>
> excess.<br>
> <br>
> For a word meaning to oppose, resist, or the like, use could possibly be <br>
> made of something meaning to fight or contend (e.g. haifstjan, weihan) <br>
> followed by "withra" + accusative = against. In Codex A of Romans 9:13 a form of <br>
> "andweihan" means "warring against". And in Luke 18:3 "andastathjis" is an <br>
> adversary, from which we might conjecture a verb "and(a)standan (?)<br>
> <br>
> For a verb meaning to depart, "twisstandan" occurs in 2Cor 2:13 for "depart <br>
> from".<br>
> <br>
> I am afraid the above contains more caveats and confessions of ignorance <br>
> than assertions, but owing to the dearth of replies to the original questions <br>
> I offer it for what it is worth.<br>
> <br>
> Making words up to fill the gaps in what we know of Gothic is an enterprise <br>
> that deserves careful thought and diligent investigation; it would be easy <br>
> to do it badly. I am therefore reluctant to roll my own Gothic. To <br>
> postulate a Gothic word corresponding to something that is common Germanic (e.g. a <br>
> word for "green") requires a knowledge of how sounds have changed in the <br>
> various Germanic tongues, and in particular of how they changed in Gothic. I <br>
> believe many reconstructions were done long ago by Jakob Grimm. For <br>
> present help, if Llama_nom is still active he would be a valuable source of <br>
> advice.<br>
> <br>
> Gerry T.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> In a message dated 25/02/2012 05:50:44 GMT Standard Time, <br>
> anheropl0x@... writes:<br>
> <br>
> Also, German Abschied (parting or farewell). Pretty obvious it would come <br>
> from something like the verb afskaidan, though the verb to bid farewell is <br>
> andqithan, I believe.<br>
> <br>
> --- In <a href="mailto:gothic-l%40yahoogroups.com">gothic-l@yahoogroups.com</a>, "anheropl0x" <anheropl0x@> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > I'm currently on my phone, so I can't access any of the neoglism files, <br>
> but I was curious what you might think the translations of these two <br>
> words/phrases are.<br>
> > <br>
> > Resistance (Widerstand)<br>
> > Too many (zu viel)<br>
> > <br>
> > I found in one dictionary that has andstandan for to resist, but I'm not <br>
> sure which suffix to use to make it a noun. I haven't looked at wiktionary <br>
> yet, but I doubt it will have much (I often reconstruct from <br>
> proto-germanic or go by analogy of another Germanic language). If I can think of any <br>
> more words, I will add them.<br>
> ><br>
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