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Author: Curt
Email: curtbargren at earthlink dot net
Date: 2005-02-17 11:55:25
Subject: Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced?
Thank you so much. Do you think this word could be related to Old Ennglish 'wica' (week-ah), which sounds similar, given your explaination of the 'h'? If 'wica' means an advisor, officer, or awakened (enlightened) person (what a nightmare trying to track it down), and is supposedly Old Saxon (or some such), and if the noun form of 'weihs' is 'weiha,' isn't it possible that one evolved into the other over a period of centuries (the way 'media' is now used as a singular noun, or 'love-lived' is pronounced with a short 'i', or 'via' has become 'veea'? If words can be corrupted in one generation, what about over many generations? Especially if the culture is illiterate?
Thanks,
Sincerely,
Curt
> > Can somebody tell me how 'weihs' (holy) is (was)
> > pronounced? And can it be dated and attributed to a specific region?
>
> Like English "weeks", except that the "h" is pronounced like the "ch" in "Bach".
>
> Nearly the entire extant corpus of Gothic is the translation of the Christian Bible made by Bishop Ulfila (or Wulfila) in the middle of the 4th century. Wulfila did missionary work among the Gothic of Dacia (modern Rumania), so it's likely that his translation reflects the dialect of Gothic spoken in that area at the time.
>
> --Sean
| Messages in this thread | Name | College/University | Date |
| How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | curt | 2005-02-17 01:17:43 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Sean Crist | Swarthmore College | 2005-02-17 07:34:52 |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Curt | 2005-02-17 11:55:25 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Sean Crist | Swarthmore College | 2005-02-17 18:10:50 |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Curt | 2005-02-18 01:18:42 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Curt | 2005-02-18 01:39:03 | |
| much/mucho (Re: How is Gothic 'weihs'...) | Sean Crist | Swarthmore College | 2005-02-19 18:47:21 |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Sean Crist | Swarthmore College | 2005-02-19 19:22:18 |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Peter Tunstall | 2005-02-22 16:40:19 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Sean Crist | Swarthmore College | 2005-02-25 21:36:40 |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Peter | 2005-02-26 10:22:37 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Curt | 2005-04-03 11:53:41 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Curt | 2005-04-03 12:29:12 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Curt | 2005-04-03 14:49:07 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Curt | 2005-04-04 12:15:10 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Peter | 2005-04-08 16:11:26 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Peter | 2005-04-08 20:10:57 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Sean Crist | Swarthmore College | 2005-04-10 12:15:51 |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Curt | 2005-04-10 16:02:49 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Curt | 2005-04-10 16:06:01 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Sean Crist | Swarthmore College | 2005-05-07 18:10:38 |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Sean Crist | Swarthmore College | 2005-05-07 18:15:52 |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Curt | 2005-05-09 02:02:30 | |
| Re: How is Gothic 'weihs' pronounced? | Brian Lewis | Campbell University | 2010-07-07 00:43:06 |