[gothic-l] Re: four points of the compass

[Manie Lombard]

Thanx

Just like German "Abendland" and "Morgenland".


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From: "llama_nom" <600cell at oe.eclipse.co.uk>
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Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 4:24 PM
Subject: [gothic-l] Re: four points of the compass


> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Manie Lombard" <manielombard at c...>
> wrote:
>> Thanx Llama Nom
>>
>> I will use this information for my list and posted it as soon as I
> am
>> finished with it!!!
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> Oh, and lest we forget the obvious, there are actually words
> attested for East and West / orient & occident, as nouns:
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> URRUNS "rising, east, drain/toilet", masculine; the -s is is part of
> the root.  With meaning "rising, east" = Gk. ANATOLH (pluralis
> tantum, plural-with-singular-meaning, ANATOLAI).  Koebler suggests
> an i-stem, perhaps by analogy with the feminine 'urruns' (urruns-
> ) "exodus, going out, departure"; GARUNS "street, market,
> concourse"; or with the masc. RUNS (run-) "flow, course, run" = OE
> ryne.
>
> And SAGQ(S) "sinking/setting, west" = Gk. DUSMAI (pluralis tantum).
> Only attested dat.sg., so possibly either masc. or neut., but Wright
> and Koebler both list as masc., a-stem acc. Koebler.  See Mt 8,11
> fram urrunsa jah saggqa "from east and west" (the Gothic words are
> both dat.dg. here translating Gk. gen.pl. anatolwn, dusmwn).
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