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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes  Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 4 01 March 2012 at 2:39pm | IP Logged |
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There is a Germanic Lexicon Project which might be relevant to fill out some holes. Basically all known words must come from either Skeireins or the surviving parts of Wulfila's bible (mostly from the New Testament, where there isn't much talk about animals), and the result is all Gothic words for animals which aren't mentioned in these sources are gone for good.
But I'm curious. Why do you want to know the animals names - have you planned to learn to use Gothic actively? Edited by Iversen on 01 March 2012 at 2:41pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Davy Putnam Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4839 days ago 5 posts - 37 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Studies: German, Ancient Greek | Message 4 of 4 04 May 2012 at 1:43am | IP Logged |
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Just as a word of advice, I wouldn't recommend building your Gothic vocabulary by learning the names for animals.
As Iversen already mentioned, there is little talk of animals in the extant Gothic texts. In the Gothic I read I recall something about swineherds and John's belt being made of camel hair, or something like that. But regardless, since it is a Germanic language, there will still be many English cognates anyways. Incidentally, I see that your native language is Greek, which will probably be very helpful. My understanding is that most scholars believe that Wulfila's translation of the New Testament is really just a word for word gloss of the original Ancient Greek. So there are a number of Greek borrowings, which will be easy for you. Also, I don't know how you are planning on learning Gothic, but one of the standard works is Joseph Wright's Grammar of the Gothic Language. It has some Gothic texts at the end, and for some of them it has the Gothic text on the left and the Ancient Greek on the right, which I'm sure would also help. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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