[gothic-l] Re: du usfilhan ana gastim

[llama_nom]

Hi Dirk,

Yeah, that's just the trouble: they're both quite convincing!  Also 
ON á Englandi.  Of course, the field itself isn't being moved to a 
foreign land, but OE says _on eastenglum_ literally "among the East 
Anglians", where MnE would say "in East Anglia".

Llama Nom


> > 
> > 1) to be buried in, by foreigners (Terry)
> > 2) ? to bury ... foreigners (Durante)
> > 3) for burials among the foreign community (Llama)
> > 4) at the foreigners, for their burials (Sigi)

> 
> Hi Sigi and Llama Nom,
> 
> Sigi's examples for the use of this Gothic preposition 'ana' seem 
> very plausible to a native German speaker. Thus Gothic 'ana 
speiwan', 
> would be 'an speien' in German (to spit at). In other words, 
> Gothic 'ana' seems quite similar to modern German 'an'. As for the 
> use of 'ana' for 'in the land of ...', in an older biblical German 
I 
> remember the form 'Da er ward gekommen an dem Lande der ...' (i.e. 
> Whence he had come in the land of ...'. Modern German 'an' is here 
> used like 'into, to' which is similar the last example by Llama 
Nom 
> above which suggests that Gothic 'ana' could also be used in this 
> sense.
> 
> Cheers
> Dirk





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