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[ualarauans]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Lombard" <manielombard at ...> wrote:
>
> Hails Walahrabn!

jah þu ni siukais, Manie!

> Oops, yes :))) Thanks
> 
> So it is faura Xristau, but afar Xristu ? (or faura Xristáus 
gabauranana; afar
> Xristáus gabauranamma?)

faura Xristau gabauranamma and afar Xristu gabauranana respectively. 
Actually this is a calque from Latin (post aliquem natum "after 
smbd. was born"), I don't know if it was acceptable to say so in 
genuine Gothic. The accent on birth may be appropriate since we 
count years from this precise date (be it real or artificially set 
later), not from "Christ's time" in general.

Afar Xristau is not absolutely wrong, I must say. Temporal afar 
rules accusative, that's right, but u-stems all too often confuse 
dative and accusative.

> <Couldn't it also be *Mati-swinþa?
> 
> (mats, mati-) meat-(swinþ) strong?

Why not? More appetizing than *Maþa-swinþa "worm-strong" :) 
Seriously, I was thinking of "measure-strong" or smth alike.

Thanks for the quotation from N. Wagner!

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