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TIME. 791
ones can hardly be so. But now, as the Goth, freilis has no
representative in the other Teutonic tongues, and in return the
OHG. zit, AS. tid, ON. ti& seems foreign to Gothic, it is natural,
considering the identity of meaning, to suppose that the latter
form arose from mixing up ]?eihan (crescere) with teihan (nun-
tiare), and therefore that the AS. tid stands for f>id, and
OHG.
zit for dit; besides, the OHG. zit is mostly neut., like J?eihs,
whereas the fern, zit, tid would have demanded a Goth. ]?eiha]?s.
Of course a Goth. ]?eihs ought to have produced an OHG. dihs or
dih (as veihs did wih) ; but, that derivation here branched in two
or three directions is plain from the ON. timi, AS. time (tempus,
hora), which I refer to the OHG. dihsmo 1
above, and a Goth.
]?eihsma, with both of which the Lat. tempus (and terno ?) would
perfectly agree (see Suppl.).
Like hveila, the OHG. stulla, and stunt, stunta, AS. ON. stund
(moment, hour), contain the notion of rest, and are conn, with
stilli (quietus), standan (stare), while conversely the Lat. mo
mentum (movi-mentum) is borrowed from motion. 2 We express
the briefest interval of time by augenblick, eye-glance; Ulph.
renders Luke 4, 5 eV (my/Af) %povov in stika melis/ in a prick
of time, in ictu temporis ; 1 Cor. 15, 52 eV pnrf) 6(j)0a\jj,ov, in
brahva augins/ brahv being glance, flash, micatus, AS. twincel,
and traceable to braihvan (micare, lucere), OHG. prehan, MHG.
brehen; 3 AS. f
on beorhtm-hwile
(
from bearhtm ictus oculi, on
eagan beorhtm, Beda 2, 13 ; ON. i augabrag&i, conf. Saem. ll b .
14 a . 19 b . OHG. in slago dero brawo, N. ps. 2, 12, in a movement
f
of the eyelid (conf. slegiprdwa palpebra, Graff 3, 316); ante-
1 In dihan, dihsmo the d remained, in zit it degenerated. Just so the Goth.
}?vahan first became regularly OHGr. duahan, then irregularly tuahan, now zwagen ;
the OS. thuingan first OHGr. duingan, then tuingan, now zwingen. Less anomal
ous by one degree are OHG. zi for Goth, du (to), and our zwerg for ON. dvergr
(dwarf), MHG. twerc.
2 Numeral adverbs of repetition our language forms with stunt as well as mdl,
but also by some words borrowed from space, Gramm. 3, 230.
3 Beside the inf. brehen a
(MS. 1, 47 . 185 a
. Gudr. 1356, 2) we are only sure of
the : pres. part. onge-brehender kle, MS. 1, 3 b . brehender schin 2, 231 a for the
;
pret. brach, MS. 2, 52 a . Bon. 48. 68, could be referred to brechen, conf. break of
day, p. 747, yet the two verbs themselves may be congeners. In OHG. the perf.
part, appears in prehan-ougi (lippus), a compound formed like zoran-ougi, Gramm.
2, 693. The Goth, brahv assures us of the princ. parts in full, braihva, brahv,
brehvum (like saihva, sahv, sehvum). But instead of an adj. braihts (bright), even
the Gothic has only a transposed form bairhts, OHG. peraht, AS. beorht, ON.
biartr ; yet our Perahta is afterwards also called Prehta, Brehte (pp. 277-9), and other
proper names waver between the two forms, as Albrecht Albert, Euprecht Kobert.
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