[gothic-l] Re: New to the list with questions

[Francisc Czobor]

Dear Homer,

in the Gothic Bible, God is named "Guth", a Germanic word cognate
with English "God", German "Gott", etc. Obviously, in that Bible it
refers to the Christian God, but surely it was a generic term also
for the pagan pre-Christian gods of the Goths, like in other Germanic
languages. The Christian Goths called God also "Frauja", which
means "Lord". In pre-Christian times, the Goths worshipped also
some "demi-gods", called, according to Jordanes, "Asi" (the word is
cognate with Old Norse As, Aesir, from a Proto-Germanic *ansu-).

Francisc

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Homer Makedonski
<HomerMakedonski at s...> wrote:
> Hello to the  group
> Regarding all of you here and wishing you all the best in search to
the answers for the questions you have.
> Sorry for my English,it fare away from good and pure,
> Considering my self as new to the list,I would like to ask you a
question as well.Hope you won't mine
> Deeply believing that for a lot of the answers ,the things  should
be related with a religion and opserving how the religion have a
reflection in all the aspects of  the human society I am interesting
in how the Gotts had titled the
> a God's  name or what was the name what all the  Gotts were using
to say  God during the time they lived.
> This will be very helpful to me,and my amauterism in searching the
names and their possible meanings.
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> Homer Makedonski
>
> --- "Francisc Czobor" <fericzobor at y...> wrote:
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