can someone correct my grammar

[llama_nom]

Interesting, I hadn't noticed that.

gibandins fraweit = DIDONTWS EKDIKHSIN = dantis vindictam
fraweit usgiband = DIKHN TISOUSIN = poenas dabunt

Can we generalise to swearing an oath (giving one's word) and repaying
that promise, enduring the consequences?  Possibly...  Another of the
great maybes of Gothic grammar!  On the other hand, 'fragildan' and
'usgildan' are both used (interchangeably?) with the sense of
inflicting vengeance, and no attestation of the simplex *gildan: mis
fraweit leitaidau, ik fragilda, qiþiþ frauja. (R 12:19 = ANTAPODWSW);
saihviþ ibai hvas ubil und ubilamma hvamma usgildai (I Thess 5:15 =
APODWi).

LN



--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell@> wrote:
> >
> > The idiom to "give an oath" is used at Mt 5:33 to mean "fulfill an
> > oath" (iþ usgibais fraujin aiþans þeinans), rather than swear an 
> oath.
> 
> Cf. fraweit giban "to take vengeance" (2. Thess. 1:8) and fraweit 
> usgiban "to suffer vengeance", "to be punished" (2. Thess. 1:9). 
> Interestingly, the prefix us- makes the whole construction reverse. 
> So, maybe aiþ giban "to give an oath" and aiþ usgiban "to fulfill an 
> oath" as in the sense "to accept the consequence of the sworn oath" is 
> possible? 
> 
> Ualarauans
>


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