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[Ian Ragsdale]

LN,
 I'll say that I stand corrected.  I took it as perhaps an archaic
imperative, an opinion I based on the Greek source.

-ian


On Feb 12, 2008 12:26 PM, llama_nom <600cell at oe.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
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> Welcome to gothic-l, Ian. I hope it lives up to your expectations!
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> > Hails allos thiudos,
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> Now, let the quibbling commence... In other old Germanic languages,
> it's normal for cognates of Gothic 'hails' to agree with the person or
> persons to whom the greeting is addressed. E.g. in the Old Norse poem
> Sigrdrífumál:
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> Heill dagr! (masculine singular)
> Heilir dags synir! (masculine plural)
> Heil nótt ok nift! (feminine singular)
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> Hail day!
> Hail sons of day!
> Hail night and her kinswoman!
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> The word is only used twice in this way in the Gothic corpus: jah
> qeþun: hails þiudans Iudaie! "and they said: hail, king of the
> Jews"(John 19:3); jah dugunnun goljan ina: hails, þiudan Iudaie! "and
> they began to salute him: hail, king of teh Jews" (Mark 15:18), each
> time in the masculine nominative singular, as it would in other
> Germanic languages. So it's not possible to know for sure, but most
> likely it would have been marked for number and gender just like other
> adjectives, thus: hailos allos þiudos!
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