About vocative case

[Budelberger, Richard]

5 pluviôse an CCXIV (le 24 janvier 2006 d. c.-d. c. g.), 22h05.

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Objet : [gothic-l] Re: About vocative case

> With the greeting 'hails' (attested twice), Gothic matches the Greek
> by using the vocative in Mark and the nominative in John.
>
> hails, þiudan Iudaie! (Mk 15,18)
> hails þiudans Iudaie! (J 19,3)
>
> The version with nominative could be seen as a wish, short for *
> hails sijais "be thou hail", "be well".  Compare Old English: wes þú
> hál; hál westú; hál wes þú; wes hál; béo gesund; wes gesund; sý þú
> hál léof.  And Old High German: heil uuisthu.

    Cf. <news://news.franconews.org/dr67u7$7oa$2@apollon.grec.isp.9tel.net> (in French).


    R. B.





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