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Gothic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hailagaz. By surface analysis, π·π°πΉπ»π (hails) + -π°π²π (-ags). Attested in only one instance, as a runic inscription on the Ring of Pietroassa.
Pronunciation
Adjective
π·π°πΉπ»π°π²π β’ (hailags)
- (hapax) holy, sacred
- α·α’αα¨αΎαααΉααΊα¨ααα¨α·
- gutaniowihailag
Usage notes
- The exact semantic differences between π
π΄πΉπ·π (weihs) and the far rarer π°πΉππΊπ½π (airkns) and π·π°πΉπ»π°π²π (hailags) are unclear. The latter two however are only attested once, whereas weihs is one of the best-attested words of the Gothic language. Airkns is only found in the Gothic Bible in affixed form (and then rarely, but it is attested as simplex in the Ostrogothic sermon recorded in the Gothica Bononiensia) with an apparent meaning leaning towards sincerity (especially sincerity of faith), and hailags is only found in a difficult-to-interpret early runic inscription from an apparently pagan context (although the pagan nature of the ring has been disputed in recent scholarship: see Mees and Markey 2018).
Declension
Attested only once, in the Runic: αΊα¨ααα¨α· (hailag); lemmatization at the Biblical Gothic uncial script here is done only as a matter of convention.
References
- Bernard Mees and Thomas L. Markey, 'The Pietroasele Torc and the Conversion of the Goths', Amsterdamer BeitrΓ€ge zur Γ€lteren Germanistik 78.4 (2018)