A
GOTHIC GRAMMAR
WITH SELECTIONS FOR READING AND A GLOSSARY
BY
WILHELM BRAUNE.
TRANSLATED
(FROM THE FOURTH GERMAN EDITION)
AND EDITED, WITH
EXPLANATORY NOTES, COMPLETE CITATIONS, DERIVATIONS, AND CORRESPONDENCES,
BY
GERHARD H. BALG.
SECOND EDITION,
Mmwavker, Wis.: THE AUTHOR.
New York: B. WESTERMANN & CO., LEMCKE & BUECHNER.
Loypon, Enc.: KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUEBNER & CO.as
Cx, DES Sea.
. ENTERD ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1895. BY
G H. BALG,
IN THE OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, AT WASHINGTON.
TPES OS
ELECTROTYPED AND PRINTED BY THE GERNANIA Pun. Co.,: MITAWAUKEE,! Wis,AUTHOR’S PREFACE.
HE main object of this Gothic Grammar is to render
service to academic instruction, as a basis for lectures
and Gothic excercises; it is intended, at the same time, to
afford the student sufficient aid in acquiring a practical
knowledge of the Gothic language and thus enable him to
follow more advantageously the lectures on historical and
comparativ grammar. For this purpose. the Gothic Fono-
logy and Inflection ar, as far as possibl, set forth by them-
selves, without resorting to Comparativ Grammar for an
explanation of the facts. Occasionally another Germanic
dialect, as the Old High German, has rather been referd
to. The linguistic elucidation is left to the lectures. To
him, however, who lerns Gothic from this book, without
any possibility of hearing lectures, wishing at the same
time to gain profounder knowledge, there may be especially
recommanded the following helps: K. Bruemany’s ‘Grund-
riss der vergleichenden grammatik’ and Fr. Kiuce’s ‘Vor-
geschichte der altgermanischen dialekte’ (in Paut’s ‘Grand-
riss der germ. philologie’, I, 300—406).
The references to literary works containd in the
Grammar itself ar not intended to act as linguistic ex-
planations, but refer to works and treatises which present
much of profit concerning the establishment and conception
of facts from’a purely Gothic point of view; several
refererices to BRuGMANN’s ‘Grundriss’ ar perhaps the only
exceptions.
The Reading Exercises ar intended to offer sufficient.
material for Gothic exercises; they giv students working
independently of a teacher an opportunity to apply what
they hav lernd from the Grammar. The beginner may be