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Great questions. Another one I have wondered about: is "fraitan" pronounced as "frajtan" or "fra-itan"? Based on the preterite, I have always assumed the former pronunciation, but it bothers me (because of the analogous Ger. essen/fressen, I guess my feeling is they should rhyme - this is admittedly unscientific).

As for your sample words, I have always treated them as your first examples, as if the prefix were a separate element that doesn't affect pronunciation, but I have to admit I have absolutely no proof for this. I'll look in my Gothic books this weekend and try to find an answer.

Regards,

Eric

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "anheropl0x" <anheropl0x at ...> wrote:
>
> I have another question that I can't seem to find explained anywhere. Would you say that when a prefix, such as "ana/fra/bi" is added to a word like "biudan/dailjan/domjan,"
>  would the pronunciation change from "byooðan/dajljan/dōmjan" to "ana-vyooðan/fra-ðajljan/bi-ðōmjan"? I hope my transliteration is up to par with being simple enough to serve its purpose here.
> 
> Also, I made a reply to my other post to keep from making another thread. I understand my posts are not much like other posts here, dealing with the people more than the random aspects of the language, so I hope that I do not annoy people here.
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "anheropl0x" <anheropl0x@> wrote:
> >
> > So. in no dictionary can the word "dream" be found. Any idea what it might have been in Gothic?
> >
>


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