[gothic-l] Gutnish and Gutnish documents et al

[Bertil Häggman]

Francisc,

Am providing a few additional clues to the
Gutnish-Gothic relation, which you may
not have considered (all from professor
Sophus Bugge, who early called
for a thorough investigation):

1. Gutnish skurae and Skaeurae "shovel" has
no equivalent in other Nordic languages.
It fits pretry well with Gothic skauro i
winthiskauro.

2. Another possibility is lukarna-staki in
Gutnish which seems to be related to
Gothic lukarna-stapha. This word does
not exist in other Nordic languages.
Bugge believed that it was related
to Gothic lukarr=small fire.

3. Gutnish bloejnae with probably an older
*blyna (for the weather to become milder).
The prefix bi- is common in Gothic.

4. Old Gutnish ver and Gothic wairilo seem
close.

5. In Gutasaga (which you have studied)
there is the word briscathus=grow in number,
"foeroekas" in Swedish. Could there a relation
to Gothic?

6. Lamb in Gutnish mean sheep, while in other
Nordic languages it means lamb (Gothic lamb=
sheep).

For the time being I would like to stop here but
there is more. BTW, maybe you should take a
look in the Gotlandic dictionary (no English
edition available, I am afraid, I just translated
the title into English), 1991, 1270 pages.
I can also recommend Saeve's five volumes
of Gutnish documents, that in my view would
have to be investigated carefully. I do not want
to put you off in your quest, which is admirable,
but if the search for answer is seriously considered,
one has to do things in the finest detail.
Of a certain value is of course the knowledge of
Swedish which makes the access to the documents
more easy and is smoothing the way, so to say.

Gothically

Bertil




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