Monday, September 5, 2011
Gothic Language Lesson (Love)
Here is some gothic with the usual definitions.
Freidjan is a verb meaning to take care of.
Freihan is noun meaning freedom.
Freis is an adjective meaning free.
Friaþwa is an adjective meaning "showing love".
Friaþwa is a n.str.fem meaning love or charity.
Frijei is a noun meaning freedom.
Frijōn is a verb, weak.II meaning to love.
Frijondi is a feminine noun meaning (female or my) friend..
Frijonds is a masculine noun meaning friend.
Ga-friþōn is a verb meaning to make peace between.
Sáiwalafrijondi is a noun meaning my soul mate, "mina själsfrände" in Swedish.
In gothic there are no spaces between "words". "I am a friend" is imfrijonds. No need for an apostrophe between the "I" an the "m", because there is no word, "am". Who needs it anyway? .I thought learning a little Gothic would help me understand the differences between English and Swedish. Most of the differences seem to be words like am and sheep that did not exist a couple millennia ago.
For more information see: A Comparative Glossary of the Gothic Language by G. H. Balg
To study the Gothic language see: A Primer of the Gothic Language
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