Greeting Hails

[OSCAR HERRE]

yea whatever happened to him....he was  or is from england i presume......just wanted toget clarification on the use of the word  " is"......like in english its used as a preposition i think.....like he is fishing today...in goth would that be.....ina fiskandan ist dudag....

--- On Thu, 5/31/12, Grsartor at aol.com <Grsartor at aol.com> wrote:


From: Grsartor at aol.com <Grsartor at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [gothic-l] Greeting Hails
To: gothic-l at yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, May 31, 2012, 2:29 PM



  



Well, it looks as if we have a variety of suggestions: stick with "hails" 
in all circumstances, as the expression may have become formulaic; decline 
it for gender and number in the normal way; or take a look at what Old Norse 
did, since it has bequeathed us a large body of literature, and the 
language distinguished genders in both singular and plural. It is a pity we no 
longer seem to have llama_nom, who could doubtless have informed us about 
this. The only further comment I can make about Old Norse usage is that in the 
example Þunragais gave us,

verit heilir, konungr

the use of a plural verb with plural adjective in a remark addressed to a 
king looks as if it might be a polite use of a plural for a logical singular 
such as we find in a lot of European tongues, including French and German 
(not to say English, in which the process has run its course by having the 
singular "thou/thee" ousted by the plural "ye/you"). Could Þunragais or 
others tell us more about the Old Norse practice?

Gerry T.

In a message dated 31/05/2012 14:30:49 GMT Daylight Time, 
becareful_icanseeyourfuture at hotmail.de writes:

So, I would say, when greeting a male person it's: Hails. When greeting a 
female person: haila. When greeting a neuter thing (which is not often): 
Hailata. And in Plural: Hailai, m; Hailos, f; Haila, n.
Would you agree with that? It appears logically that the forms are 
declined for persons. 

To: gothic-l at yahoogroups.com
From: thomas at ruhm.at
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 11:07:08 +0200
Subject: Re: [gothic-l] Greeting Hails

In other languages greetings and other frequently used expressions with 
not much meaning the singular can be generalized.

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