[gothic-l] Ancient Nordic and Gothic

[Bertil Häggman]

Esteemed listmembers,

The Ancient Nordic has by some researchers
been regarded as closer to Gothic than
West Germanic. There are however according
to some sources seven
main differences between Ancient Nordic
and Gothic:

1. Ancient Nordic has endings -a and -i like hlaiwa
while Gothic has hlaiw, gasts, dags.

2. Genitive sing.  endings  in Ancient Nordic are
-as while in Gothic -is (dagis).

3. Ancient Nordic an-stems are -an in genitive and dative
sing. while Gothic has -ins (hanins) and -in (hanin).

4. Ancient Nordic has dative sing. of a-stems ending in -e
while Gothic has -a (katurna).

5. Ancient Nordic has dative sing. of the u-stems with -iu while
Gothic has -au (sunau).

6. Ancien Nordic has nom. plur. of the r-stems with iR while
Gothic has -jus (dohtrjus)

7. Ancient Nordic ends sing.pret of weak verbs with -o (tawido)
while Gothic has -a (tawida).

Grateful for comments.

Gothically

Bertil



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