[gothic-l] Re: Of introductions and dictionaries...

[Francisc Czobor]

Hails, Lama Nom!

Welcome to the Gothic List!
You did like myself: lacking a Gothic dictionary, I made once one for
myself, using exactly the same kind of sources as you did. But later
I've found a more complete one on the net.
The fact that Koebler's dictionary is available online is great news,
at least for me! Thank you very much for this information!!
(BTW: has your name anything to do with the title of Tibetan monks?
I'm interested also in Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan language).

With best regards,

Francisc Czobor
Bucharest, Romania

GUTANI WIHAILAG


--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "lama_nom" <penteract at f...> wrote:
> Hails, hail, hi, hey (hey-ho) & hello,
>
>
> I've just joined the Gothic List, so here's a short introduction to
> me, amateur Gothophile of this parish...  My main interest, or
focus,
> at the moment is the language.  I'm not very widely read in the
> history or archeology yet, I'm afraid.  Other interests of late:
> fractals, 4-dimensional polytopes, dreams, interactive fiction and
> the classical Art of Memory.  Studied Old English and Old Norse at
> University a few years ago, and have been indulging in occasional
> bouts of Gothic ever since.  Right now, I'm particularly excited to
> discover that the Wulfila project is up and running and searchable
> online - I guess that's old news here.
>
> I was also rather amazed to find that the whole of Gerhard
> Koebler's "Gotisches Woerterbuch" is now publicly available
> online!!!!  Does everyone know about this?  I can still hardly
> believe it.
>
> http://www.koeblergerhard.de
>
> (Look under publications, for this and dictionaries of several
other
> early Germanic languages.  My appologies if this repeats earlier
> posts.)
>
>
> Which kind of leads me to the topic of this first message.  You
see,
> when I found all these online Gothic wonders I was in the middle of
> trying to make an English-Gothic glossary of my own.  At first this
> was based entirely on Wrights "Gothic Grammar", later supplemented
by
> Braune & Helm's "Gotische Grammatik", together with words
> reconstructed from personal names gathered from various books, and
a
> few deduced from borrowings into Romance and Slavic languages.
Then
> I started adding words I found while reading the online corpus -
and
> finally there was Gerhard Koebler's dictionary - which of course
> meant I had to revise the whole thing.  This actually has an
English-
> Gothic appendix, but I decided to carry on anyway, since mine will
> have more grammar, hopefully making it handier for anyone wanting
to
> actually write (or talk?) in Gothic.  Also, I've got this far, I
want
> to get something finished.  Also, the more the merrier!
>
> Do these sound like mad ravings?  Or is anyone interested?  Has it
> been done before?  Is anyone (or even everyone) else out there
> working away at the same thing?  If anyone has/is doing the same,
I'd
> be very curious to know what sort of approach you've taken.
>
> I'm not sure how long till it's finished.  Maybe never, but I would
> like to get a prototype up an running some time in the next few
> weeks, before I run out of steam (if that's not  too ambitious) -
> even incomplete and imperfect it might still be of some use to
> someone.  I'm sure it will be very imperfect at first, so I'll just
> call it a prototype, but, well, you can all be the judge of that.
>
> best wishes,
>
> Lama Nom
> (I'm up to about 4600 entries, by the way).


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