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Gothic has already the word "usmet", na. for culture. It also means
behavior, conduct, life of a citizen, cultural community, society,
polity and way of life.

For archaeology Icelandic has fornleifafrædi. This in Gothic might be
? *fairnjalaibafrodei

Obviously the examples of -logia in the koine greek have to do with
words or speaking more than study or science, lat. scientia, gk.
gnwsis. -waurdei wouldn't work in these cases. I vote for kunthi or
frodei. There are more roots like witan, laisan, etc. Witan has to do
with knowing, being wise, having seen, etc.; laisan with learning,
teaching, having learnt, etc; kunnjan of course has to do with
familiarity and recognizance; frathjan has to do with understanding,
comprehension.

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Michael Erwin <merwin@> wrote:
> >
> > I agree. I suggest that (in addition to the household words, etc.) we
> > should come up with word-lists for linguistics and archaeology. The
> > former has already started with case names.
> > 
> > For the latter, what are suitable Gothic renderings of:
> >
> > - Culture
> > - [A specific archaeological] culture
> 
> I know there will be better variants made up from native words, but 
> what if we use *kultura F.-o and arkaiulaugikeina (-laugiska) kultura 
> respectively? We have to decide something about this ending –ikeins 
> vs. –isks. The former is attested as a rendering of Greek –IKOS, the 
> latter is as modern Germanic languages (except English I guess) have 
> it. Or if the policy is that NO foreign words may exist in revived 
> Gothic, then you don't need it of course. But then I can hardly 
> imagine how the language is to be used at all.
> 
> As a variant I'd suggest huzdastaþs, lit. "treasure place" for 
> archaeological site, metaphorically. Airþahuzd for "archaeological 
> find".
> 
> > - Ecology
> 
> Wkaulaugia? Garda-leisei/-kunþi? Garda-waldains? And what will 
> be "ecologist" and "ecological"? Actually, what is (if there is) a 
> public consensus on "nature"? You could form something from it.
> 
> > - Technology
> 
> Taiknulaugia as an abstract noun. For a concrete device we'd need 
> something different.
> 
> > - Artifact
> 
> I was thinking over it since I made a translation of the articles' 
> titles and I've come to *handu-waurstw N.-a constructed from attested 
> components and meaning literally "a hand-made item".
> 
> > - Settlement
> 
> Saliþwa? *Salistaþs "place of dwelling"?
> 
> > - Gravegoods
> 
> *Hlaiwahuzda pl.?
> 
> > - Oksywie
> > - Przeworsk
> > - Weilbark
> > - Chernyakhov
> > - Sintana de Mures
> 
> If Polish names have German equivalents like Wielbark/Willenberg it's 
> relatively easy to Gothicize them: Wiljabairg(s). What would you say 
> seeing a "monster" like this: Wiljabairgis Arkaiulaugikeina Kultura? 
> At least it looks like a living European language, not a puristic 
> abstraction.
> 
> If no German(ic) equivalent is found, then there are two ways that we 
> can take: either translate the name literally according to its meaning 
> in the given language or try to render its phonetics with Gothic 
> alphabet remembering that the result must be pronounceable to a 
> imagined Goth. Using a plausible folk-etymology would be fine I guess.
> 
> E.g., Chernyakhov may be Kairnjaxof. The start K is actually not k, 
> but koppa used in historical Gothic as a numeral only. We can 
> specialize it to render palatalized k, i.e. [ch]. One reason to do so 
> is that in Cyrillic which was also based on Greek and is close to the 
> Wulfilan alphabet in several other respects, the corresponding letter 
> with the same shape and the same numerical value was and still is used 
> for [ch]. The problem is how to transliterate it in Latin characters. 
> I'd suggest using letter c. The letter x would do for [kh], again in 
> accord with Cyrillic. The long [o] would designate that this vowel is 
> stressed. The final f alternates with b in oblique cases.
> So, Cairnjaxof, gen. Cairnjaxobis, adj. cairnjaxobisks.
> 
> For all fans of folk-etymology (and I am one of them myself) I'd 
> suggest using Qairnugawi, lit. "mill region" or the like. This –gawi 
> would support that this is a geographic location.
> 
> Romanian Romance names are probably to be led back to presumed Latin 
> etymon which can be then "borrowed" into Gothic. Unfortunately I don't 
> know the proto-form of Sintana. Maybe it would be just Sintana F.-o in 
> Gothic? And what is a Gothic reconstruction for the river Mures. If I 
> remember right Jordanes mentions it as Marisia. It's quite certain 
> that the historical Goths did have a name for this river. What could 
> it be?
> 
> Ualarauans
>


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