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Gothic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *weรพruz (โyearling lambโ). Cognate with Old English weรพer and Old Norse veรฐr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /หwi.ฮธrus/, /หwiฮธ.rus/
Noun
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๐น๐ธ๐๐ฟ๐ โข (wiรพrus) m
- (hapax) lamb (young sheep)
4th Century,
Wulfila (tr.),
Gothic Bible: Gospel of John (
Codex Ambrosianus E) 1.29, (quoted within
Skeireins, leaf 1):
[1]- ๐๐ฐ๐น, ๐๐ฐ ๐น๐๐ ๐
๐น๐ธ๐๐ฟ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ณ๐น๐, ๐๐ฐ๐ด๐น ๐ฐ๐๐ฝ๐น๐ผ๐น๐ธ ๐๐๐ฐ๐
๐ฐ๐ฟ๐๐ท๐ ๐ธ๐น๐ถ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ฝ๐ฐ๐๐ด๐ณ๐ฐ๐น๐.
- [โฆ] sai, sa ist wiรพrus gudis, saei afnimiรพ frawaurht รพizลs manasฤdais.
- Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world (KJV).
Usage notes
This word translates แผฮผฮฝฯฯ m (amnรณs, โlambโ). Another word for "lamb", ๐ป๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฑ (lamb, โsheep, lambโ), translates แผฯฮฎฮฝ m or f (arแธn, โlamb, sheepโ).
Declension
Hypernyms
References
- ^ Skeireins leaf 1 Provided by Project Wulfila 2004, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Last modified on 2005-03-30 by TDH.
Further reading
- Streitberg, Wilhelm (1910). Die gotische Bibel. Zweiter Teil: Gotisch-griechisch-deutsches Wรถrterbuch. Heidelberg: Carl Winterโs Universitรคtsbuchhandlung, p. 178