Gothic compared to other germanic languages

[thiudans]

Hails Fredrik!

For changes in later Gothic, compare Busbecq's description of Crimean
Gothic.

For composite form of 'fon', compare:

Baurgswaddjus (baurgs < baurhs* fem. cons. stem), using either an
innovative nominative or a genitive
Nahtamats (nahts + mats), naht-a- has a thematic vowel borrowed from the
first strong declension. Also anomolous with nahts is the dat pl. -am
for cons. decl. -im
Alh- may appear in some personal names, but it is unsure.
Other consonantal stems seem not to appear in composite: brusts, dulths,
miluks, mitads, waihts

I would therefore conclude funins- or fun-a/i-.  But I would also
suggest considering other words for fire: branda, brunsts, blesi, aida.
Not sure which word for storm would be best: skura, staurms, wegs;
probably the first.


--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Fredrik" <gadrauhts at ...> wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> At the time when gothic was spoken, how much did it differ from the
> other germanic languages in grammar and phonology?
>
> One thing is the diphthongs, which gothic has. Didn't the other have
> these too? Both westgermanic and northgermanic?
>
> And the same thing about the monophthongs.
>
> The highgerman change of consonants, didn't happen after that gothic
> became extinct?
>
> And the lack of umlaut, one thing which I've heard is a typical
> gothic thing. Didn't umlaut happen (in some germanic languages) at
> the time after gothic extinction?
>
> So if gothic would have survived, it shouldn't be impossible that it
> would go through some of the changes which happen after.
> If gothic would have survived in northern italy it would maybe have
> been influeced by the german consonant change, right?
>
> Btw. how is fon = fire fixed in compound words?
> E.g. fire storm = ?
>
> /Fredrik
>







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