[gothic-l] Gothic Language Corner 12

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Edmund, thete is a codex with the Gothic alphabet, I don't know it's name,
and there is a word used which could be an equivalent of horse, this
website contains the words of the codex:

https://sites.google.com/a/everywitchway.net/ling-lang/germanic/east/gothic/pronunciation

I would rather say that it's not certain if it's attested instead of not
being attested at all.


Op dinsdag 17 maart 2015 heeft edmundfairfax at yahoo.ca [gothic-l] <
gothic-l at yahoogroups.com> het volgende geschreven:
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> Gothic horses:
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> The word for 'horse' in not extant in the corpus, but at least two
different nouns can be reconstructed with a great degree of certitude.
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> 1) Proto-Germanic *'ehwaz' (masc. a-stem), cf. OE 'eoh,' ON 'jor,' OS
'ehu-,' would yield a Gothic *aihws (masc. a-stem). Indeed, the stem is
preserved in the extant Gothic plant-name 'aihwatundi.' These forms descend
the common word for horse in Proto-Indo-European, to wit, *'Hekwos'; cf.
Latin 'equus,' Greek 'hippos,' Sanskrit 'asvah,' Old Irish 'ech,'
Lithuanian 'esva,' etc.
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> 2) Proto-Germanic *'marhaz' (masc. a-stem), cf. OE 'mearh,' ON 'marr,'
Old Frisian 'mar,' OHG 'mar(a)h,' would yield a Gothic *'marhs' (masc.
a-stem). The stem is preserved in a few Latinized Gothic personal names:
e.g. Eterpamara (Jordanes), which is usually analyzed as 'et Erpamara'
('et' = Latin conjunction) = *'Airpamarha,' with 'airpa-' meaning '(light)
brown' (cf. ON 'jarpr' = 'chestnut, reddish-brown;' OE 'eorp' = 'dark,
dusky, brown, swarthy;' OHG 'erpf' = 'brown, dark-brown, dark'); and with
'-marha' an n-stem onomastic element derived from the word for 'horse.'
Likewise the Latinized Gothic name Marabadus (Cassiodorus) = *'Marhabadwa-.'
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> Derived from Proto-Germanic *'marhaz' is *'marhi' (fem. ja-stem) or
*'marhijon' (fem. on-stem) = 'mare', cf. OE 'mere,' ON 'merr,' OHG 'mariha
/ meriha,' which would give a Gothic *'marhi' (fem. ja-stem) or
alternatively *'marhjo' (fem. on-stem).
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> Finally, it might be noted here that the horses of Iron-Age Germania were
noticeably smaller than their counterparts of today, judging from
archaeological remains: they were in effect largish ponies. As Todd (>The
Northern Barbarians, 100 BC - 300 AD< 1987, p. 102) writes,
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> "the horses also were short and stocky, measuring approximately 1.35m at
the shoulder. The animals were probably not much shorter than many in the
Roman provinces, but were broader and less graceful. Once again, there is
no evidence of imported breeds: larger and heavier animals are first
apparent from the later Migration period [i.e., after 400 AD]."
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> Edmund
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