[gothic-l] Re: Another new member with some questions: gawidan

[faltin2001]

The normal
> greeting was hails (as in: hails thiudan Iudaie "hail, king of the
> Jews").  Old Norse velkominn would be Goth. *wailaqumans, but Old
> English used: wilcuma (literally a "welcome person", but also used
> as a greeting "welcome!") I think that would translate into Goth.
as
> wiljaquma (inflected like a weak noun/adjective).
>
> Gawairthi thus,
>
> Llama Nom


Hi Llama Nom,

I was wondering about this word 'Hails'; was that really a common
greeting formular amongst Goths? and if so where is that attested. If
it really occurs only in acclamations like 'hails thiudan Iudaie', I
would be rather sceptical about this. Hence, in modern German this
would also be 'Heil, dir Koenig der Juden....', without Heil beeing a
greeting at all in normal usage.

Cheers
Dirk



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