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6769.] The Consonants. 29
g is not dubld before g; the only case, atgagggaud (Mt. IX, 15) is corrected
by the editors. The reverse error occurs three times: fauragagja (for
fauragaggja, steward); Lu. VIII, 3. XVI, 1; hugridai (for huggridai):
I. Cor. IV, 11. Cp. Vulfila by Beruhardt, p. LI.
NOTE 2. The Latin sign (n) for the guttural nasal occurs but a few
times in Lu.; as, J>ank ; XVII, 9; bringi]>; XV, 22.
68. The combination ggw deservs special notice.
( 1 ) It is a guttural nasal + gw, as is proved by the ng of
the remaining Germanic languages (also of the ON.): aggwus,
narrow (OHG. engi, ON. ongr); siggwan, to sing (OHG.
singan, ON. syngva); saggws, song. Here perhaps belongs
also unnianariggws, unrestmind, wild (cognate with OHG.
ringi? Dtsch. Litteraturzeitg. 1888, p. 770).
(2) Another ggw corresponds to West-Germanic uvv
(OHG. uu or uuu; cp. ahd. gr., 112. 113), to ON. gg(v);
this gg certainly denotes a stop: triggws, faithful (OHG.
triuwi, ON. tryggr); bliggwan, to beat (OHG. bliuwan);
*glaggwus, exact (OHG. glauwer, ON. gloggr); skuggwa,
mirror (ON. skyggja; cp. Goth, skawjan).
NOTE. Concerning the ggw of the words givn under (2) and the ana-
logous ddj ( 73, n. 1), cp. Beitr., IX, 545; Gottinger Nachrichten, 1885,
No. 6 ; Brgm., I, 157 ; Scherer, 'Kleinere Schriften', I, p. XII et seq.
Concerning the East-Gothic names Triggua, Triggnilla, s. Wrede, 'Ostg.',
78 et seq.
3. Dentals.
69. Gothic t corresponds to Greek r, and stands
frequently both initially and medially. E.g. (a) initially:
timjws, tooth; trill, tree; tuggo, tung; tagr, tear; taihun,
ten; twai, two; tamjaii, to tame; trauan, to trust, st:
steigan, to mount, (b) medially: wato, water; liairto,
hart; baitrs, bitter; itjin, to eat; giutau, to pour; sitaii.
to sit; witan, to know.
Final t remains unchanged; as, wait, I know; at, at;
wit, we two.
NOTE 1.
NOTE 2.
t is dubld in atta, father; skatts, muney.
t before I in derivativ and inflected words becums J
( 81);
as, ushaista, very poor (cp. haitan); bldstreis, wurshipper (cp. blotan, to
wurship); 2nd pers. sg. prt. waist (1st wait), haihaist (inf. haitan, to be
calld); weak prt. ganiosta (1st pers. gauiot); kaupasta (inf. kaupatjan, to
cuf); wissa (< wista, 1st wait).