Civilization & Culture

[Fredrik]

Hi all. I hope that there still are a few fellows here so this isn't 
totalt in vain.

I though about words for civilization and verbs to describe it, like 
civilize.

After I thought a while I came up with an idea which was based on the 
word un-mana-riggws which means smth like fierce, cruel, barbaric and 
took the oposite word mana-riggws to mean civilized, (mostly an 
oposite meaning of barbaric). As noun I used mana-riggwitha (sf). I'd 
like to know what riggws is and what it mean.

Later I found out that I already translated the word 'civilized' but 
forgot about it. At that earlier time I used uf-hausjands as the 
meaning 'behaved'.

I also think there's a connection between the words civilization and 
culture, both coz civilized countries/people have a higher culture. 
And the icelandic word has a connection. Right now I can't tell for 
sure but if I remember correct civilization is siðmenning or smth 
like that and siða (a verb) means to bring up and menning (not sure 
if thats totally correct either) means culture, probably from a verb 
meaning 'to make a (behaved?) man of'

Any ideas about this?

What would the gothic word for the Cultural Revolution be?

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