[gothic-l] Re: ASILUKAIRNUS

[faltin2001]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Francisc Czobor" <fericzobor at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Ingemar Nordgren" <ingemar at n...> 
> wrote:
> > --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "F.E.J.D. IV" <visigoth at a...> 
> wrote:
> > > I am wondering if anyone here is aware of or knows something 
> about the
> > > word: 
> > > 
> > > << ASILUKAIRNUS >>.
> > > 
> > > I would enjoy to hear what others may know.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > F.E.J.D.
> > 
> > Hi Fernando,
> > 
> > Gothic 'asilu-qaírnus' is according to Streitberger 'Eselmühle', 
> which
> > seems to be a mill driven by a donkey going round in circle. Hence
> > 'asilu´is a donkey and 'qaírnus' is a mill. In Swedish mill is 
> called
> > 'kvarn' which definitely seems related to 'qaírnus'but the latter 
is
> > equipped with a Latin-influenced ending -us.
> > 
> > Best regards
> > Ingemar
> 
> Just a little correction: the ending -us it not at all Latin-
> influenced, but it represents in Gothic the normal ending for 
> nominative singular for masculine and feminine u-stems, like in 
> sunus "son", handus "hand", fotus "foot", *asilus "donkey" 
(attested, 
> beside the above compound, also as Gen.sg. asilaus and Ac.sg. 
asilu), 
> aggwus "narrow", aglus "difficult", dauthus "death", 
> fairhwus "world", flodus "flood", hardus "hard", hliftus "thief", 
> huhrus "hunger", etc. etc. etc.
> 
> Francisc




Hi Francisc,

I am interested in the word  "fairhwus" for world. Can you think of 
an equivalent in another Germanic language. All the other words are 
more or less easily recognisable but "fairhwus" is not, at least not 
for me. Could it be a loanword? Old high German has "mittingart" for 
world and "aerdha" for lat. terra. Also, "hliftus" for thief does not 
remind me of a Germanic equivalent.

Otherwise, old high German equivalents to your Gothic examples:

oHG - Gothic
suno/sune/sun - sunus
harto/hart - hartus
hanto/hant - handus
float - flodus
anglih - aggwus
agalizo (?) - aglus
todh/dodh - dauthus

Cheers
Dirk






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