More Neologisms

[Francisc Czobor]

glezamahts is a loan translation into Gothic of the Icelandic word 
rafmagn "electricity", literally "amber's power" (cf. Greek 
elektron "amber").
mahts "power" is an attested Gothic word;
*gleza- "amber", is not attested, but reconstructed from the Common 
Germanic root *glesa-/gleza-, with the original meanig "amber" but 
which gave words like German Glas, English glass.

Francisc

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Fredrik" <gadrauhts at h...> wrote:
> Nice done. Good to have some more words to use.
> 
> Some of them is similar to my own ideas but you also have some that 
I 
> haven't thought about at all.
> 
> Could you translate them litteraly and explain something about how 
> you thought???
> 
> For exampel. the word for electricity I guess you got it from 
> icelandic. So did I anyway. But I don't know what the first word 
> means, litteraly.
> 
> /Fredrik
> 
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell at o...> wrote:
> > 
> > Hey, can I have a go!
> > 
> > fairweit, na.  curiosity.
> > gaumawairþs, a.  noteworthy, interesting.
> > glezamahts, fi.  electrical power, electricity.
> > hugisahts, fi.  idea.
> > inwageins, fi/o.  emotion.
> > qiusahts, fi.  film, movie.
> > uswageins, fi/o.  excitement.
> > spillawairþs, a.  interesting, worth telling.




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