Atta unsa

[Anthony Grant]

Folks:

The Gothic translation was mentioned  Its author, Wulfila/Ulfilas,  was
half-Goth and half-Greek (his mother was from Cappadocia, I think) and
translated the Bible literally from Greek.  The oprning phrase i the
Pater Noster in Greek is Pater he:mo:n, which is 'Father of-us'.  That
got changed into Pater noster in the Latin translation, Faeder U:re in
Old English, Vater unser in German, and so on - that is, a quirk in the
Latin (which norally has 'Noster Pater') has been perpetuated in this
sentence in lots of languages.  Even in the Balkan language Kalaidzhi
Romani one finds: Dade amare, instead of Amare Dade.   I assume it was
traslated from a Bulgarian version which had something like Otche nash
(at a guess), also father-our.

Pater noster is atypical of Latin element order and shouldn't be taken,
um, as gospel when it comes to discussing head and modifier order.

Anthony
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