century, events, deaths

[ualarauans]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Lombard" <manielombard at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> Does anyone have a suggestion how "century" could be translated 
into Gothic?

aiws (Dutch eeuw)?

> English "events" (German "Ereignisse", i. e. historical events): 
what is better,
> *gadafs (pl. gadabeis, from gadaban) or waihts (pl. waihteis)?

If context permits, I'd use þo waurþanona (sg. þata waurþano), 
lit. "[things] that have happened".

> "Deaths" in contrast to births (Geburten, Sterbefälle): swults 
(pl. swultos) or
> dauþus (pl dauþjus)?

*swultadrus (pl. -druseis)?

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