[gothic-l] Re: is Gothic the language of one or a few men?

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

I want to give some tips here for anyone who wants to make neologisms with
compound words, this is what the book Gotische Grammatik from Braune says
about compound words, this is what I remember of it and I don't look it up
now, so this is how the rules are as I know and learned them, but you would
need to look them up for yourself to be exact:

Basically a, i and o-stems use -a very often to combine words.

-ja stems

If a -ja stem contains a long syllable, -i is used for the combination.
If a -ja stem contains a short syllable, -ja is used, like in the
neologism: nat*ja*staþs = website, nat is a short syllable here

-u stems

U-stems always use the *u *in compound words, example:  hard*u*hairtei

u-stems always



2015-02-12 23:07 GMT+01:00 Dicentis a <roellingua at gmail.com>:

> I think that there are quite some books on the markets to learn Gothic,
> most of them academic ones, but none of them contains audio. You would need
> to ask a Gothic teacher from some university if he or she would be willing
> to contribute to a book in which both parts of the Bible, the Skeireins,
> the Title Deeds, modern texts and improvised texts are pronounced in Gothic.
>
> 2015-02-12 23:05 GMT+01:00 write2andy at yahoo.com [gothic-l] <
> gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>:
>
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>> I don't think you have to be Catholic to go to the Vatican library, but
>> I'm not sure who's allowed in there. (If it's not restricted to the pope
>> and suchlike, I'd love to go.)
>>
>> I think denoting long "a", "e", "o", and "u" is good too, so you know
>> whether to use -ji- or -ei- (such as "nasjis", short "a", versus "sokeis",
>> long "o".) We use the macron for that. (I actually never use macrons for
>> Gothic, but for teaching, it is optimal.)
>>
>> I think a Gothic textbook should have exercises such as "fill in the
>> diacritics in a passage" or "pronounce aloud and compare with the audio
>> CD". This would teach people what goes where. But there would be a notice
>> saying it's not guaranteed that someone will use them in their writing.
>>
>> Now I want to write a textbook for Gothic. Not by myself (and I'm not apt
>> for teaching Gothic yet anyway), but some of the people here might be good
>> at it. I'd proofread the English at least, since I am very good at that.
>>
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