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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english
Subject: Re: Carmina Burana
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 14:21:20 -0000 (UTC)
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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.
-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de