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The Gothic M>rd.
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1. 'Gothic lancuq•--S-ant1ca. 2. .Bible. Gothic
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TABLE OF OONfSITS
Introduction .......................................... 6
Abbreviations or lev Testament Texta, Includin
'l'ranalat1ona and lmlned1atel7 Aaaociated Wor~• 43
Technical liotea • . . . . . . . . • • . . . • • • . . . . • • • • •. • • • • • • • . . . . 4 7
Blbl 1ogrnph1cal Abbrev1at1ona ..........•...... • ..... 48
Or at1oal and Phonological or 53
Mar~• Ide~t1r1cat1on
General Abbreviation. ...................... ,,, ..••.... .SS
Abbrev1at1ona ot Goth1c B1bl1cal Books lllld
Other 'Bmain' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . • • . . 6o
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Al QRDt SE>UJlTIC PI&.DS COWSISTiliQ OF SE'.'ERAL
WORDS OR WORD-STJiMS
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l 18analcteti - !!£an8ktie1a; hal!lotia; dl&kr!n~ 62
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2 . 6011, !;:h8:-ia, lal1i 19
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3 eaOJ:!tron ( a!n1E!l!!a): neEM ananii!~ e;cn,l?M 10s
B~ GREEX SD!Ali'lIC FIELDS CONSISTING OF SDl:JLE
WORDS OR ...ailD-STEM.:.
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2 pleoneKte~ - pleonekt~a - pleonex!a •.........•••. 168
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..3 a.nbero p ••••••.•••••••.•..••••• 189
4 en8khe . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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tnkak.~. l/t1kakei5; (ors e'kkye~) ........... , •• 21s
6 •xapore6 . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . • ,23
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Concludon
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~;pendi.x I: !'he Spe7er Frag111en~ ••••.•.••••••••.•••• ZS6
AJ;J:endi.x I.I t ~gl1ah !'ranslat1ona ot the Cleaa1cal
Sourou on Wultila and on tho i<Joth1c Biblical
Tranalet1on which are Found 1n Streitberg •••• 267
B1bl1ograph:r:
Pr!m.ar7 Text •••••....•••..••••••••••..•••••••••• 32.3
Biblical Texts 1n Greek, Latin, Engliah, Gennan • .323
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Greek-Gothic Concordance 327
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General
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•Index and Gloaaary to Major 'liiorda Diacuaaod in
!h1a Work . . . . . • • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . )37
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!'be ent11'e field Geman1c philology 1a united by
a a~e overr1d1ng tacts that all ot the Ger111an1c
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languages have a common root 1n i. language.
That language 1a today called Proto-Germanic b7 achdlara
ot the Bngliah-a~alcing vorld, Urgennaniach bJ German- .
spealcing scbalara> and urseman1lca by th• Svedu ,• .1'h1•
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proto-language is unattested 1n an7 documenta, but the
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science comparative 11.nguiatica has allowed u1 to
reconatruct man7 or 1ta root tonna. Theae root to:rma
may 1n turn be used both tor work 1n Indo-Buro1ean
COll:p&rat1ve l~ngu1at1ca on the one hand, and for
pedagogical a1da and explanator7 devices 1llUD11nat1ng
the prehistorical sound changee 1n Germanic languages
on the other, that ia, tor vorlc both baclcvarda and
torvarda 1n time. Die tionariea ot such conje: tured
roe t rorma ttma becOllle invaluable atorehouaea ot
1n1'ol'Wlat1on about sound cbangea. Presentl7 there are
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two auch dictionaries: Alf Torp and HJ al.mar Pal.le' a
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Wortachatg der gerinan1acheu Spracbe1nheit wl:Uch,
however, ia no longer readily available, and Elmar
l. Vol. 3 1n August Fick, Verg1e1chendea llorterbueh
der indogermanischen Sprachen (GOttingen: Vandenhoeck
& Ruprecht, 1909).
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Seebo1d1s Vergle1chendet ~ etJa()log1sche1 l!Orterbuch
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genu.nischtn s tarken v erben. 2 11hich 1.a. 'l'he latter
1a mi exnplar7 111odel of lexicologlcal work 1n h.1.atorical
Germanic linguiatica, and treata atrong verbs and their
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derivatives; it aervea aa a precureor t;.<> a work which
wlll enc0111pus the entire Proto-Germanic vocabulary,
inaofar aa this can be detel'lllined from th.e dialeota •
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In such work 1n COlllparativ• Gel'llanic linguistics, I
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the Gothic becomes immediately and
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el:w:oat obtrus1vel} apparent. The state ot the
Goth~c.
language 1n the Gothic biblical recorda 1a about three
centuriea older than the earlie1t extanalva attestation•
1n any of the other Germanic languagH, and about a
centui-j older than the beginning• or the High Gel'llan
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language, if we accept the middle or the fifth centur,
at the t!me of the High Gel'llan 80\Uld shift. Gothic
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retaina word tmdings very great antiqu!.t"1, anqinga
which tave been loat in all other GeM11anic languages,
}et Which enable us to explain many later Gel'llanic
phenomena which are but reflexea or cognate endings 1n
those languagea. The pervaaiveneaa of ablaut, the
virtual absence of ualaut, and 11um7 other Gothic
2. Tlw Hague: Mouton, 1970.
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characteristics are ot !P'eat as2iatanee in establishing
t.ha prehlat.o17 ot the Germanic languages in their
evolution trcm 1roto-Indo-8uropean.
For the znoat part, however, suoh things pertain to
!'om and to gram:nar. Words, ot course, are essentially
the aensuall7 perceivable vehicles or 111eaning, and the
atud) of word meanings, or semantics, 1s thererQre one
or the 1110st critical el11111enta 1n the atudy or any
language at any time. ln order to study any language
properly, the student needs not only a gr81111lar but a
dictionary.
In order, in comparative linguistics, to ascertain
a cognate relationship between the apparently corresponding
fonr.a in different languages, some kind of plausible
~connection is !re~uently required. Bence the
(gr•a~ importance or tha 111ean1ngs or Gothic words; tbeae
Gothic mean1nga are also otten accepted as tha Proto-
Oer.manic meanings pure and a1mple.
Yet 1n spite or !ta obvious 1mp0rtance, the study or
Gothic a11111antic~as0lagged sorely behind the other
phases of Gothic research, for a n1D1ber of reasons.
To begin with, our Gothic records are anoatly
tranalat!ona or a completely non-Germanic document, tha
Bible. Hence, 1n one way or another, tbe Gothic
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:tranalator frequentl7 had to borrow or coapou new and
untJP1cal worda (e.g., aee pune1diata). Secondl7, the
t:ranalat1on was done 1n the 1110at literal, word-tor-w rd,
olemont-tor-ela=ent Eanner imaginable, a general trait
ot biblical t.ranalating or thoae t1.mea. 'l'b1a latter
tact 1ntroducea a dual c~mpl1cat1on1 tirat, it. muat be
underatood which single Greek word, of several po•s1ble
variants, underla7 anJ given Gothic at the thr;o or
w~rd
translation. (A complication related to thia problem
1a the queat1on or whether a Gothic paaaa,ge has aurrered
later ~endat1on as a result or other, even non-Greek,
vera1ons or the Scriptures.) Secondl7, it muat be known
which or the poaalble connotation• of a tranalated Greek
(or non-Greek') VOl'd are present 1n an7 given case •
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The taak or thia book 1a the semantic 1nveatigat1 n
and oiplication or certain Gothic worda which hnvo
been badl7 m1aunderatood up till now, and or Gothic
a811!antics generall7. the vorJC will also serve aa an
µplanation or aportant categorifta 1n Gothic semantics,
and aa an exmt:ple or :method or detol'll11ning Gothic vord
meanings tor a d1ct1onllrJ or the Biblical
rorthco~1ng
Gothic language.
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!be lev 'f•at-•nt, u la well known, haa had a ll'•ater
ln.nuence on the courH or huaan hlltol'J' than &ti7 other
book eYer vrltten. In apite otr ita .i.oat imaeaaurable
aigniticance, however, there are man7 detail• regf.l'ding
ita earl7 h1ator1 vhicb are poorl7 or not at Ill known.
!oda7, aa a reault ot centuriea ot biblical reHarch,
ve poaaeaa a reconatructed Xev 'feataaent Greek text
virtulll7 1denticll with the >rev Testament u or1.g1nall7
written a hundred generat1ona ago. !'hie text 1a the /
United.Bible Societ71a Greek!!!! teat11111ent.3
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!'he original manuacripta, called autograph•, the
booka'or the Vew reat. .e nt were rapi4l7 copied over and
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oval' again by the cleric• ena preab1tera the eXJ. :mding
new religion, and the copiea were in turn th•aelvea
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copied. In the proceaa tl.llle, the autograph• theaaelYec
became loat, but the written meaaage live~ on. Yet at
the aame time, -all al terat1ona and addi tiorui crept
into the copiea ot copiea ot copiea during their
multiplication. Inevitably. aome attempt had to be
made to l!ait the increaa1ngl.7 chaotic atate of f8cr1ptural
taxta and to eatabliah an authoritative norm, lest the
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divine word become col'rupted to .the point ot unrecognizabll 1 t7.
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lev York: 1966.
