[gothic-l] Matthew 2 in Gothic

[Dicentis a roellingua@gmail.com [gothic-l]]

Thanks Basti, we can use that reconstruction in the final version. I used
Edmunds reconstruction of dream, *swifns for this word in the text, as this
isn't attested either.

2015-02-04 20:32 GMT+01:00 Weidemyr Basti setiez at yahoo.com [gothic-l] <
gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>:

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> Looks like 'Egypt' is not in the corpus. 'Pharao', exist in the Bologna
> Fragment - Farao.
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> In Greek, Egypt is spelled αιγυπτος and Wright says: "Greek αι, which was
> a long and open e-sound like ǣ in OE. slǣpan, is regularly represented by
> ai ...". And, "Most consistency prevails in nouns ending in the nom. in
> -us, Greek -ος; these usually follow the u-declension in the sing., but the
> i-declension in the plural."
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> That would give (with the standard y-is-y-only-in-loanwords-transcription):
> Singular
> N: *Aigyptus
> G: *Aigyptaus
> D: *Aigyptau
> A: *Aigyptu
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> I downloaded the corpus from the Wulfila Project as a text-file. That way,
> I can search for words and parts of words with the search function of my
> text-editor. *recommends*
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> ./Basti
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