A Primer of the Gothic Language (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...among; uf, under; ufar, over, above; und, with ace, until, up to, with dat. for. (4) With accusative, dative, and genitive: in with ace, in, into, towards, with dat. in, into, among, with gen. on account of. 289. 3. Conjunctions. (1) Copulative: jah, and, also; uh (enclitic), and; nih, and not; jah... jah, both... and; nibatatnei... ak jah, not only... but also; nih... ak jah, not only... but also. (2) Disjunctive: aibbau, or; andizuh... aibbau, either... or; jabbe... jabbe, whether... or; ni (or nih)... ni (or nih), neither... nor. (3) Adversative: ak (after negative clauses), but; akei, but; ijj, ban, abban, but, however. (4) Conclusive: nu, nunu, nuh, bannu, banuh, baruh, eiban, dube (dubbe), therefore. (5) Concessive: bau, in that case; bauhjabai, even though; swebauh, indeed, however. (6) Causal: .allis, auk, raihtis, unte, for, because; (ni) beei, (not) because; bande, inasmuch as. (7) Final: ei, batei, beei, bei, thai; dube, dubbe ei, du bamma ei, to the end that; ei, swaei, swaswe, so thai; ibai (iba), lest, that... not. (8) Conditional: jabai, if; nibai, niba, unless, if... not. (9) Temporal: ems, just as; ban, bande, when, as long as; bibe, mibbanei, whilst; aunsei, as soon as; faurbizei, before that; unte, und batei, bande, until, until that, as long as. (10) Comparative: hraiwa, how; swe, as; swaswe, so as. CHAPTER XV. Syntax. Cases. 290. Accusative. Transitive verbs govern the accusative as in other languages: ga-saihrip bana sunu mans, ye shall see the son of man; akran bairan, to bear fruit; &c. A few verbs take an accusative of kindred meaning, as ohtedun sis agis mikil, lit. they feared great fear for themselves, they feared exceedingly; haifstei bo god on haifst, fight thou) the good fight; similarly huzdjan huzda, to tre...