Fwd: Eine Kleine Gotenmusik + Revelation

[thiudans]

Little song I think should not use a partitive genitive. "Little
music" might, because it suggests a part of a larger collective whole,
like little yeast etc., in the same way we say in English "a little
(bit of)..." One little song, emphasizing the number via 'ain-' might
act as a deprecative.

-Th.

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> 
> First, congratulations Arthur on your latest compositions!  Waila
> waurhteis!  Some powerful and poignant poetry there.
> 
> 
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Michael Erwin <merwin@> wrote:
> >
> > I suppose the Gothic thread-name would be "Ains leitils *Gutsaggws"
> > 
> > or "Ains smals Gutisks saggws"
> > 
> > or a combination thereof?
> 
> 
> Or maybe 'leitil Gutane saggwis' (compare I Cor 5:6, I Tim 5:23), with
> a partitive genitive.  Like the other early Germanic languages, Gothic
> mostly does without an indefinite article in the singular...
> 
> leitil beistis
> "a little yeast"
> 
> weinis leitil brukjais
> "use a little wine"
> 
> jah was jainar manna gaþaursana habands handu.
> "and there was yonder a man having a withered hand"
> 
> unte manna hardus is
> "for thou art a hard man"
> 
> 
> > GBRP / Naihaimias & James 3:6 [was just] Re: James 3:6
> > 
> > Hails!
> > 
> > Are there any good reasons to believe that a Gothic version of the
> Revelation once existed?
> > 
> > Ualarauans
> 
> 
> I'm not aware of any specific evidence one way or the other about
> Revelation.  There are hints in the Vienna-Salzburg Codex that a
> translation of Genesis existed, and there are a couple of clues to
> suggest that there was a Gothic psalter.  John Chrysostomus mentions
> in a homily that psalms were sung in Constantinople in Greek, Syrian,
> Latin and Barbarian language; according to Elfriede Stutz, "es ist
> kaum zu bezweifeln, dass mit THi BARBARWN FWNHi die got. Sprache
> gemeint ist" (Gotische Literaturdenkmäler 1966, p. 30).  Then there is
> the case of the two Goths who wrote to Jerome for his advice regarding
> translating the psalms, although Stutz comments that it isn't clear
> whether they had in mind translation into Gothic specifically.
> 
> LN
>


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