[gothic-l] Re: Digest Number 828

[faltin2001]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Ingemar Nordgren <ingemar at n...> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> > Message: 1
> >    Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:49:32 EDT
> >    From: Grsartor at a...
> > Subject: Re: Being verbs
> > 
> > About whether the Goths had a word like English "be". Lehmann's 
Gothic 
> > Dictionary lists not only Gothic words but also their relations 
in English, German 
> > etc. I find no entry for "be" in the list of English relations, 
or "bin" in the 
> > corresponding German list. I should guess that the word is not 
represented in 
> > Gothic, even though it has kin in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit.
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Sigmund Feist  has a fitting word for "be", namely 'wisan' which  
can 
> mean Germ.'sein', Engl. 'to be' , to be available, but also 
> 'bleiben','remain' and 'angehören','belong to'. Pres.3 pers. 
becomes 'nist'.
> 
> Best
> Ingemar


Hi Ingemar,


this Gothic word 'wisan' for 'be' seems related to Low Saxon 'wees, 
wesen', which also means 'be'. 


cheers
Dirk 






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