Gothic word for "girl"...?

[marja erwin]

I think mawi, mawilo for younger girls, and magaþs are possibilities,
although I'm not sure exactly how they're used.

On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 01:23 +0000, underwoodjustine wrote:
>   
> 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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