Gothic word for "girl"...?

[underwoodjustine]

Haila all,

I hate to post only when I am inquiring or needing something, I hope to someday be able to contribute rather than only posing questions and "taking" however I am quite at a loss here as I have scoured every neologism list and lexicon I can find and came up empty.

As a girl, I would quite like to know the Gothic word for "girl" and yet the word does occur quite commonly in the New Testament as there are many 'girls' healed and exorcised though any account of the miracles is either a lost translation or the manuscript exists and I have simply failed to come across it.  (I suppose it should be noted at times a 'girl' is healed though scripture may refer to her as someone's 'daughter' and not as a 'girl'.)  Please let me know if I'm quite insane.

It seems boy is "magus"?  I have found that "friend" is "frijonds" though I wonder (and hope) that there would be a term equivalent to today's "boyfriend" that is not a simple compounding of the two as the English term itself makes much less since than "lover" as the terms "boy" and "girl" mostly refer to children in other contexts.

I have also found on this group's neologism list the terms "Fráuja" and "Fráujo" proposed as abbreviations "Fr." and "Fro." respectively for Mr., and Ms./Mrs.  I wonder what everyone's thoughts are on this proposal and if these terms double as "Gentelman" and "Lady"?

I would love to end my post with "Goodbye" however I am afraid I have not discovered that phrase either.  One would barely guess I have spent a great deal of time studying this language since my last post... ;)

Þagka all!

Justine

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