[gothic-l] Re: a Gothic poem (comparatives, adverbs, ai)
rausch_roman
aranwe at MAIL.RU
Wed Jun 1 08:35:20 UTC 2005
>Did David Salo's lessons cover the different classes of adjective?
Just WA- and JA-stems. At least so far. It looks like David Salo has
cancelled the project.
Thanks for your explanations concerning adverbs and superlatives. I
guess next time I'll look into Streitenberg's grammar first, before
asking. Yet for a beginner like me a prescriptive source is much
easier to digest than a descriptive one.
>For the moment, until I know better, I'm following the pronunciation
>scheme in the early sections of Wright's grammar with one
>difference, namely I use a long open [E:] (as in my British
>pronunciation of English <fair>) for <ai> in the inflections of Weak
>Class 3 verbs.
But this would be then libaíþ in the diacritic transcription..
Do I get it right - even if "ai" had been a diphtong once in this
ending it became a monophtong due to the unstressed position (as the
stress remains on the stem)?
>I like the ambiguity of the last line. It's
>obvious to think that the snow has a cold heart, but I think
>grammatically it could also mean that it's given with a cold heart,
>that is in a cold-hearted way
This wasn't even planned...
I just thought of the cold-hearted way. :-)
Second stanza:
Aíþþáu þata blôþ, abrs jah ráuþs,
Or the blood, mighty and red,
So swêro rûna þize leike,
The honoured secret [of] the bodies,
Þata filugaláufo wein þize reike,
The costly wine [of] the kingdoms,
Þaim gudam sa máista sáuþs?
To the gods the greatest sacrifice?
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