[gothic-l] Re: Translating creeds?

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

I understand, so if we would like to use months for a colloquial Gothic, we
have to design new names just like modern Hebrew did.

2015-01-04 1:32 GMT+01:00 edmundfairfax at yahoo.ca [gothic-l] <
gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>:

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> The only Gothic month-name that is extant is "naubaimbair : frumajiuleis,"
> that is, the Latin name for 'November' rendered according to Gothic
> orthography followed by what appears to be a Gothic gloss "frumajiuleis"
> (lit. 'pre-jiuleis'). Based on the latter term, one has assumed that
> "jiuleis" is then the word for 'December.'
>
> The quotation is from the so-called "Gothic Calendar," a single page which
> begins with a few entries for the end of October apparently and then the
> beginning of November.
>
> Based on this meagre source, one could posit that there were native Gothic
> names for the months. What the other names were is impossible to
> reconstruct, given that the later Germanic languages show such little
> agreement in nomenclature. In his biography of the Frankish king (section
> 29), Einhard, for example, writes that Charlemagne
>
> "gave the months of the years suitable titles in his own tongue. Before
> his time the Franks had known some of these by Latin names and others by
> barbarian ones."
>
> When Charlemagne's names are compared to those in Old English, very few
> agree. And in Old Norse, some months have more than one name.
>
> It should also be noted that before the adoption of the Latin system of
> timekeeping, the Germanic months were most likely lunar rather than solar;
> at least, the Old English sources suggest this. As such, the Germanic
> months would not have corresponded exactly to the Latin ones in terms of
> start- and end-dates.
>
> In short, it is quite impossible to reconstruct the Gothic or
> Proto-Germanic names of the months for want of pertinent comparanda.
>
> Edmund
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