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[Fredrik]

So a greeting such as 'Hails allaim' would instead be 'Hailos 
allai' ??

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> Welcome to gothic-l, Ian.  I hope it lives up to your expectations!
> 
> > Hails allos thiudos,
> 
> 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:
> 
> Heill dagr! (masculine singular)
> Heilir dags synir! (masculine plural)
> Heil nótt ok nift! (feminine singular)
> 
> Hail day!
> Hail sons of day!
> Hail night and her kinswoman!
> 
> 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!
> 
> LN
>


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