[gothic-l] "Nosferatu- alien s.f."

[Tore Gannholm]

>on 11/13/00 10:42 AM, greg scaff at gregscaff at usa.net wrote:
>
>> Hails allaim,
>> Francisc, clearly I misinterpreted you, and I apologise.  You
>> make the excellent point that "nosferatu" is an international word-
>> why translate it into Neo-Gothic?  But do we want to incorporate it
>> wholesale, or gothicise the spelling?  Or is their  in fact some
>> Gothic cognate that might be satisfactory?  Linguists?
>> Greg
>
>Wulfila

What is the correct spelling of thin name?
I have in various places seen it spelled Wulfilas Wulfilas's translation.
Tore



might have retained the foreign word with a few changes, say perhaps
>by making it fit into the -u (neuter?) declension: nosfairatu or nausfairatu
>(not sure whether the first vowel is long or short). Another way calls for
>knowing the exact literal meaning and translating that. I've heard "undead"
>or "not-breathing" but was wondering if anyone actually knew what it meant.
>This same proces could of course go for any other neologism. The third way
>is to take an existing word and extend its domain of meaning, or by
>combining it with another Gothic word or affix not necessarily in the same
>way as the word being translated.
>
>-Matþaius
>
>
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