[gothic-l] Re: How do you create an adverb in Gothic?

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

Awiliudo þus Audamunda, (Edmund = auds + munda)

Skeireins þeina waila filu ist, satja þo her undaro, haba fraihna:

(your explaination is very good, I 'll put it under here, I have a
question:)

Magum in waurdam miþ -isk- aiþþau -eig- nauh -o brukjan, þau þata unraihta
brukein Gutiskons razdos waurþi?

(Can we use -o in words with -isk- or -eig-, or would that be incorrect use
of the Gothic language?)

 In the case of Gothic, the adverbial suffix -o appears to have been
non-productive specifically with simplex adjectives (= non-derived ones).
In other words, it had become lexicalized in such cases, and the learner
simply had to memorize which adjectives took this ending. The suffix -ba,
on the other hand, appears to have been productive and was used everywhere
except where there was already a lexicalized form with -o.

In certain cases, however, -o is regular:

1) in the suffix -leiko: e.g. 'aljaleiko, antharleiko, lathaleiko.' With
most of these, there is NO corresponding adjective in '-leiks.'

2) adjectives suffixed with -isk- and -eig-: e.g. 'thiudisko, witodeigo.'

In other words, -o was regularly only in conjunction with other
derivational suffixes.


As to the vowel before the suffix -ba, that is determined by the class to
which the adjective belongs. The majority of Gothic adjectives belong to
the a-stem class, and this 'a' will appear before -ba, thus:

abrs (a-stem) - abraba
ainfalths (a-stem) - ainfalthaba

but:

hardus (u-stem) - harduba (although 'hardaba' is also extant)

For more details on the formation of adverbs, see Heidermanns' article "Der
Ursprung der gotischen Adverbien auf -ba" (>Historische Sprachforschung<
1996, vol. 109, pp. 257-275).

2015-01-27 2:59 GMT+01:00 edmundfairfax at yahoo.ca [gothic-l] <
gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>:

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> You may wish to look over my post of 4 Dec. 2014, which explains the
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