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From: guido wugi <wugi@brol.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Carmina Burana
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 18:02:13 +0200
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Op 30/05/2025 om 16:21 schreef Christian Weisgerber:
> On 2025-05-30, guido wugi <wugi@brol.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Perhaps a bit on topic: the German parts pose some questions to me. One
>> example: how to parse
>> "Swaz hie gat umbe"?
>> ~ "Das was hier rundumgeht"?
> Looks Germanic... Wikipedia tells me it's Middle High German.
> Did Joseph Wright[1] also write a MHG primer?  Yes, he did!  Checking
> there...
>
> ~ was hier geht um(her)
>
> "Swaz" < "so waz" 'whatever' is apparently a relative pronoun.
> Neither "swaz" nor "umbe" have modern forms.
>
>
> [1] Wright's Old High German primer is my go-to resource for that
>      language stage.  He also wrote one on Gothic.  They're all
>      available on the Internet Archive.

Aha, "so was". Thank you!
When did "gan" (nl. gaan) become "gehen"?

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guido wugi