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

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

Hails Audamund,

Thanks for your correction. Yes, I didn't use the book but I tried to write
down what I remember, I was unsure about the i-stems. Thanks for correcting
me.

Golja thuk,

Hrothiland

2015-02-13 1:03 GMT+01:00 edmundfairfax at yahoo.ca [gothic-l] <
gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>:

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> Dear Roel,
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> Note that the connecting vowel for i-stems is not -a- but -i-: cf.
> gastigoths, naudibandi. O-stems do indeed take -a-: cf. airthakunds,
> hleithrastakeins.
>
> Audamunds
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>
> ---In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, <roellingua at ...> wrote :
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> Although these are the rules as described in Braune's grammar book, the
> knowledge of Proto-Germanic wasn't as good as it is now, and I see more
> reconstructions which follow the proto-germanic like Hrothiland, so I would
> say, no, but in some cases this system is to be applied.
>
> 2015-02-13 0:08 GMT+01:00 write2andy at ... [gothic-l] <
> gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>:
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> So, for example, "hamstring" would be "hamaráips", even though the first
> element is from PG *"hamo^"?
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>
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