Re: [gothic-l] Re: "air", "airis", þáim "airizam" jah þata "jér"

[Grsartor at AOL.COM]

Hailai allai, þishun Konrad,

about whether the Gothic words "jer" (year) and "air" (early) are related:

I do not know, but Lehmann's Gothic dictionary states under "air" that it is 
"[not related] to jer (in spite of Noreen 1894:89)".

I notice that Matt and I provided discordant information about the accenting 
of "air" and "airiza" etc. My statement, that it was given an editorial 
accent on the initial letter, was taken from what I have in a word-list that 
is on a website somewhere. It also agrees with Bennett's Introduction to the 
Gothic Language. But since Gothic writing itself did not indicate that there 
were different sounds represented by "ai", presumably the decision how to 
accent this combination is made by comparison with similar words in other 
languages. When disagreement between different sources of information occurs, 
I am in no position to argue one way or the other. Let others arbitrate.

Gerry T.

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