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From: Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com>
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Subject: Re: Carmina Burana
Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 10:53:18 +0200
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Fri, 30 May 2025 14:21:20 -0000 (UTC): Christian Weisgerber
<naddy@mips.inka.de> scribeva:

>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.

Umbe, umme, um? Just phonetics?

>[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.

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