winja

[Grsartor at AOL.COM]

The Gothic word "winja" is, according to W. P. Lehmann, a feminine noun  with 
the same nominative and accusative. It occurs in John 10:9, where it  
translates the Greek "nome", which in the New Revised Standard Version is  "pasture". 
However, if John 10:9 is the only place "winja" occurs at, I should  have 
thought that its nominative could as well be reconstructed as "wini", it  then 
being a noun in the same class as bandi, haiti, and wasti.
 
Perhaps comparison with other Germanic tongues would allow a decision to be  
made between these possibilities, but I am not qualified to give guidance on  
this. Its kin, again according to Lehmann, include Old Icelandic vin and OHG  
winne, both meaning meadow, and OI yndi (neuter) and OHG wunna (feminine)  
meaning happiness.
 
Gerry T.


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