𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻
Gothic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *tunglą (“celestial body”). Cognate to Old Norse tungl (“moon”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtunɡl/, [ˈtuŋɡl]
Noun
𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻 • (tuggl) n
- (hapax) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
- firmament
- constellation
- star
- luminous celestial body
- 4th Century, Wulfila (tr.), Gothic Bible: Epistle to the Galatians (Codex Ambrosianus A) 4.3:
- 𐌿𐍆 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻𐌰𐌼
- uf tugglam
- […] under the elements: […] (KJV).
- 𐌿𐍆 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻𐌰𐌼
Usage notes
Attested only in the dative plural as a gloss to 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌱𐌹𐌼 𐌸𐌹𐍃 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍈𐌰𐌿𐍃 (stabim þis fairƕaus) (an obscure phrase apparently meaning something along the lines of "the elements of the universe") in Galatians 4:3.
Reconstruction notes
The gender and stem of this word cannot be ascertained from its one appearance (𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻𐌰𐌼 (tugglam), dative singular). It may have been an a-stem or an-stem of either masculine or neuter gender. Streitberg (who assigns the meaning "Gestirn" to it) reconstructs a neuter a-stem, presumably based on the word's Germanic cognates.
Declension
Neuter a-stem | ||
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Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻 tuggl | 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻𐌰 tuggla |
Vocative | 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻 tuggl | 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻𐌰 tuggla |
Accusative | 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻 tuggl | 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻𐌰 tuggla |
Genitive | 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻𐌹𐍃 tugglis | 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻𐌴 tugglē |
Dative | 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻𐌰 tuggla | 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻𐌰𐌼 tugglam |
See also
- 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍈𐌿𐍃 (fairƕus, “world”)
References
- Streitberg, Wilhelm (1910). Die gotische Bibel. Zweiter Teil: Gotisch-griechisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, p. 142