Questions tagged [gothic]
For questions concerning the Gothic language, a dead Germanic language attested in the late antiquity and early medieval time.
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Is current Gothic ablaut paradigm correct?
Slahan is a Class 6 verb with the ablaum paradigm: a ō ō a
but we have slauhts that doesn't use it.
compare
fraliusan fralusts
gakiusan gakusts
ablaum paradigm: iu au u u
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Does Gothic have /r/-umlaut and /x/-umlaut?
Charles Nydorf believes that /r/-umlaut and /x/-umlaut in Yiddish come from /r/-umlaut and /x/-umlaut in Gothic, but he gives no examples in either language.
Yiddish has (/i/ >) /e/ > /a/ before ...
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Periphrastic verb forms in Gothic
What periphrastic verb form are attested in the Gothic language, the oldest Germanic language we have substantial records from?
Skimming through a grammar of Gothic I found that for the past tense ...
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Umlaut in Gothic
It's said that Gothic had no umlaut, but there would seem to be, although I'm sure it's not, signs of a-umlaut.
The digraph au in Gothic is thought to have represented three different sounds, one of ...
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