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<p><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div id="yiv3164417863"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div id="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1387403424286_11"><span id="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1387403424286_19">Dear Justine,</span></div><div id="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387403424286_2913" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br clear="none"><span id="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1387403424286_19"></span></div><div id="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1387403424286_23" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial,
Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span id="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1387403424286_19">As a postscript, it goes without saying that a *<span id="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1387403424286_30" style="font-style:italic;">razdakunthja</span> would be masculine, and that the feminine counterpart would be *<span id="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1387403424286_35" style="font-style:italic;">razdakunthjo</span><span id="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1387403424286_35">.</span></span></div><div id="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1387403424286_38" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br clear="none"><span id="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1387403424286_19"><span id="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1387403424286_35"></span></span></div><div id="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1387403424286_42" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span id="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1387403424286_19"><span id="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1387403424286_35">Edmund</span><br clear="none"></span></div><div class="yiv3164417863yahoo_quoted" id="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1387403424286_13"> <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> <div class="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387403424286_2765" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div class="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387403424286_2766" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div class="yiv3164417863yqt9271690123" id="yiv3164417863yqt40953"><div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 3:55:59 PM, Edmund Fairfax <edmundfairfax@yahoo.ca> wrote:<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <div class="yiv3164417863y_msg_container"><div id="yiv3164417863"><div>
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<div class="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387403424286_2771" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;">Dear Justine,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">*<span style="font-style:italic;">Razdakunthja</span> would be my first choice. The use of the suffix <span style="font-style:italic;">-ja</span><span> to form <span style="font-style:italic;">nomina agentis</span> from nouns is well attested in Gothic: <span style="font-style:italic;">fiskja, liugnja, timrja, gudja, wardja, skattja, skilja, waurstwja, kasja, swiglja, ferja, haurnja, afdrugkja, weindrugkja, afetja, bihaitja, arbinumja, fauragaggja, gasinthja, ingardja, nehwundja.</span></span><br clear="none"><br clear="none">A good treatment of early Germanic word-formation can be found in Friedrich Kluge's <span style="font-style:italic;">Nominale Stammbildungslehre der altgermanischen
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Even though published in 1926, it is still </span>one of the best. A further source is
Wolfgang Meid's <span style="font-style:italic;">Germanische Sprachwissenschaft von Dr. H. Krahe, III Wortbildung</span><span> (1967).</span><br clear="none"><br clear="none">I might add here as an aside, hopefully of interest, that the <span style="font-style:italic;">-j-</span><span> suffix was also used to form patronymics ('so-and-so, son of son-and-son') in Germanic</span>. This usage is clearly attested in the earliest runic inscriptions (I give normalized forms in the following):<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><span style="font-style:italic;">Ek Hlewagastiz Holtijaz</span><span> (Gallehus horn) 'I Hlewagastiz, son of Holtaz'<br clear="none"><span style="font-style:italic;">Ek Aljamarkiz Baiijaz</span><span> (Karstad stone) 'I Aljamarkiz, son of Bajaz'</span><br clear="none"><br clear="none">The cognate in Gaulish (<span style="font-style:italic;">-ios</span><span>) was similarly used, e.g.</span> <span style="font-style:italic;">Kongennolitanos
Kartsilitanios</span><span> 'Kongennolitanos, son of
Kartsilitanos'</span>.<br clear="none"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br clear="none">Edmund<br clear="none"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div class="yiv3164417863yqt1244394834" id="yiv3164417863yqt64710"><div class="yiv3164417863yahoo_quoted"> <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> <div class="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387403424286_2783" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div class="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387403424286_2784" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 1:25:35 PM, "underwoodjustine@yahoo.com" <underwoodjustine@yahoo.com> wrote:<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <div class="yiv3164417863y_msg_container"><div id="yiv3164417863"><div>
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<div>Hi there Edmund, I hate to resurrect an old post, but if you would render "<span class="yiv3164417863yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1387403424286_2786" style="color:rgb(63, 63, 63);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, san-serif, Roboto;">razdakunthi" for linguistics, how would you render "linguist?" *razdakunthja, perhaps?</span></div>
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