#gothic language

[beluosus]

things found in old books :

Vaguely threatening christian leaflet tucked into a volume of Chateaubriand contining Atala, René, and Le dernier Abencérage.

Annotations in Hans Krahe's Historische Laut- und Formenlehre des Gotischen.

[cat-appreciator]

It’s 11:30pm and I could be doing literally anything else but my brain has decided that, instead of actually writing this fanfic idea, I should learn Old Gothic. So I can use it for characters speaking in a different language. I like Old Gothic a lot, but this is ridiculous. Aargh.

[aardappel-van-mijn-oog]

Another a Posteriori Language lmao

Okay so I now have another conlanging project on the go - it's an East Germanic language spoken in North Africa, set in a timeline where the Vandals never left the area and became heavily influenced by both Arabic and the Amazigh languages (primarily Chaouïa and Kabyle). The language is called Endels Luha. Here is a section of the Bible in Endels Luha and the only other largely attested East Germanic language, Gothic, for comparison. Enjoy! (btw I'm not Christian just the only complete Gothic texts we have are Bible verses)

Matthew 16:33

English: These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Endels Luha: (وندلس لغة) þa-þa esus ruðða, þa jūs en mes salām maġeð habā. En þam ālame, agluns bīs habā, oc fsu þrafste; ec onn þan ālam.

/θa θa ˈɛ.sus ˈruð.ða , θa jus ɛn mɛs saˈlam ˈma.d͡ʒɛð̥ (h)aˈba . ɛn θam ˈa.la.mɛ , ˈag.luns bis (h)aˈba , ɔk fsu ˈθraf.stɛ ; ɛk ɔn θan ˈa.lam/ ثث اسس ردد، ث ي ان مس سلام مجد هبا. ان ثم عالم، اجلنس بيس هبا، وک فسو ثرفست؛ ك ون ثن عالم

Gothic: þata rodida izwis, þei in mis gawairþi aigeiþ. in þamma fairƕau aglons habaid; akei þrafsteiþ izwis, ik gajiukaida þana fairƕu. /θa.ta roː.di.da iz.wis , θiː in mis ga.wɛr.θi ɛ.giːθ . in θam.ma fɛr.ʍɔ ag.loːns ha.bɛd ; a.kiː θraf.stiːθ iz.wis , ik ga.jiu.kɛ.da θa.a fɛr.ʍu/ 𐌸𐌰𐍄𐌰 𐍂𐍉𐌳𐌹𐌳𐌰 𐌹𐌶𐍅𐌹𐍃, 𐌸𐌴𐌹 𐌹𐌽 𐌼𐌹𐍃 𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐌹 𐌰𐌹𐌲𐌴𐌹𐌸. 𐌹𐌽 𐌸𐌰𐌼𐌼𐌰 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍈𐌰𐌿 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐍉𐌽𐍃 𐌷𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌹𐌳; 𐌰𐌺𐌴𐌹 𐌸𐍂𐌰𐍆𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌸 𐌹𐌶𐍅𐌹𐍃, 𐌹𐌺 𐌲𐌰𐌾𐌹𐌿𐌺𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰 𐌸𐌰𐌽𐌰 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍈𐌿.

[omgpurplefattie]

Swamms!!!

I just learned that Gothic word for 'mushroom' is (extrapolated to have been) 'swamms'.

In modern German, 'Schwamm' is sponge; mushroom is 'Pilz'.

However, in the Bavarian dialect, mushroom is 'Schwammerl'.

We have a real living Gothic word here! I'm never calling these things 'Pilze' ever again.-

[ananiujitha]

Since Gothic adjectives don't have separate vocative forms, do you just use the nominative forms with vocative nouns?

[primalpikachu05]

My Gothic Translation of Soldier Poet King

Gadrauhts Qeþja Frauja

Gadrauhts skal qiman

saei hairu swinþ bairiþ

skal dauþjan baurg izwar 

o lei o lae o lo o lei o lae o frauja mein skal dauþjan baurg izwar

o lei o lae o lo

Qeþja skal qiman

þizei wepn ist liuþ

miþ tuggon izwis skal sneiþan

o lei o lae o lo o lei o lae o frauja mein miþ tuggon izwis skal sneiþan

o lei o lae o lo

Frauja skal qiman

Þizei haubiþ þaurnuns bairiþ

smitans swa Daweidis kind

o lei o lae o lo o lei o lae o frauja mein smitans swa Daweidis kind

o lei o lae o lo

o lei o lae o frauja mein

skal dauþjan baurg izwar

o lei o lae o

[williamrodricks]

[panthermouthh]

Where Johnny goes, the Devil follows; where Johnny goes, the Devil is already there.

Based on "A cornstalk fiddle" by the incredible @notbecauseofvictories

Finally finished this comic after months of zero progress. I adore this story and think about it often, and am so happy to finally be able to share this fan work with you. I hope you all enjoy!

[yvanspijk]

Wool & lana

The word lana (wool) in languages such as Spanish is etymologically related to English wool. For words to be related, they don't have to look like each other. Instead, you have to be able to trace them back to the same ancestor through regular sound changes - and that's what linguists managed to do with wool and lana. The infographic shows the Germanic and Romance family trees of these words.

[katesfoxhole]

Speaking of Latin being used as the translation convention for High Gothic, it just occurred to me that if Astartes was a third-declension i-stem plural noun, then the singular form would be Astartis.

I will be using that from now on.

I mean, I could instead headcanon that it's fifth-declension, in which case Astartes would be both the singular and plural (in the nominative case)... but that would be boooooring.

So, to recap:

[yoursghouly]

Source: Katalyn

[toodrunktofindaurl]

Imogen’s no good very bad time in the feywild

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[kingroan]

not to ramble about iwtv but i think a lot of people who balk at the unsavory parts of gothic fiction are people who have either 1) never truly had to face an onslaught of the macabre in their own life 2) have not actually sat with the discomfort of the darker parts of existence or simply not learned or had to learn how to process truly twisted emotions within themselves. and i bring this up in relation to iwtv because i see a lot of people pointing out 'problematic' parts of the book or bemoaning which ships are more or less toxic. and it's like it's a cow farm there's gonna be cows on the cow farm.

yeah anne rice wrote some weird shit and some of it is definitely unnecessary, most of those elements were corrected in the show. but a lot of it is just gothic fiction. you don't get to have sexy vampires, romanticism and tortured yearning without the inappropriate attachments, the true face of grief and the blurred lines between violence and eroticism which has evoked great interest in humans for centuries.

[until-mourning]

[ananiujitha]

It's frustrating to translate English poems with an iambic meter into Gothic.

English plural adjectives often have 1 or 2 syllables.

Gothic ones have at least 3 syllables in the genitive.

[vietbluecoeur]

Alucard from hit game series Castlevania except he was, like me, hit with the Elegant Gothic Lolita beam.