πŒΆπŒ°πŒΊπŒ°π‚πŒΉπŒ°πƒ

Gothic

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ζαχαρίας (ZakharΓ­as), from Biblical Hebrew Χ–Φ°Χ›Φ·Χ¨Φ°Χ™ΦΈΧ” (ZΙ™αΈ΅aryā).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /za.ka.ri.as/, (speculative) [ˈsΜ a.ka.ri.asΜ ], [zΜ a.kaˈri.asΜ ][1]

Proper noun

πŒΆπŒ°πŒΊπŒ°π‚πŒΉπŒ°πƒ β€’ (zakarias) m[2]

  1. Zacharias, a Hebrew priest, the father of John the Baptist.
    • Wulfila (tr.), Gothic Bible: Gospel of Luke (Codex Argenteus) 1:5.[3]:
      π…πŒ°πƒ 𐌹𐌽 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌰𐌼 πŒ·πŒ΄π‚π‰πŒ³πŒ΄πƒ πŒΈπŒΉπŒΏπŒ³πŒ°πŒ½πŒΉπƒ πŒΉπŒΏπŒ³πŒ°πŒΉπŒ°πƒ 𐌲𐌿𐌳𐌾𐌰 𐌽𐌰𐌼𐌹𐌽 πŒΆπŒ°πŒΊπŒ°π‚πŒΉπŒ°πƒ, πŒΏπƒ πŒ°π†πŒ°π‚πŒ°πŒΌ πŒ°πŒ±πŒΉπŒΎπŒΉπŒ½πƒ, 𐌾𐌰𐌷 πŒ΅πŒ΄πŒΉπŒ½πƒ πŒΉπƒ πŒΏπƒ πŒ³πŒ°πŒΏπŒ·π„π‚πŒΏπŒΌ πŒ°πŒ·πŒ°π‚π‰πŒ½πƒ, 𐌾𐌰𐌷 πŒ½πŒ°πŒΌπ‰ πŒΉπŒΆπ‰πƒ πŒ°πŒΉπŒ»πŒ΄πŒΉπƒπŒ°πŒ±πŒ°πŒΉπŒΈ.
      was in dagam hΔ“rōdΔ“s ΓΎiudanis iudaias gudja namin zakarias, us afaram abijins, jah qeins is us dauhtrum aharōns, jah namō izōs aileisabaiΓΎ.
      There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. (KJV).

Declension

Declines like a masculine ān-stem, compare for example πŒ°π„π„πŒ° (atta), in all attested forms but the nominative singular, which is irregular in mirroring its greek origin.[4]

Loanword; irregular/mixed declension
singular plural
nominative πŒΆπŒ°πŒΊπŒ°π‚πŒΉπŒ°πƒ
zakarias 		β€”
vocative πŒΆπŒ°πŒΊπŒ°π‚πŒΉπŒ°
zakaria 		β€”
accusative πŒΆπŒ°πŒΊπŒ°π‚πŒΉπŒ°πŒ½
zakarian 		β€”
genitive πŒΆπŒ°πŒΊπŒ°π‚πŒΉπŒΉπŒ½πƒ, πŒΆπŒ°π‡πŒ°π‚πŒΉπŒΉπŒ½πƒ
zakariins, zaxariins 		β€”
dative β€” β€”

References

  1. ^ /z/ does not appear in initial position in Gothic words natively, as it is the result of Verner's law alternation. If a monolingual Gothic speaker would have pronounced the z in words of the type Zakarias as voiced or otherwise distinct from /s/ is unclear.
  2. ^ Streitberg, Wilhelm (1910). Die gotische Bibel. Zweiter Teil: Gotisch-griechisch-deutsches WΓΆrterbuch. Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s UniversitΓ€tsbuchhandlung, p. 180
  3. ^ [1] Provided by Project Wulfila 2004, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Last modified on 2005-03-30 by TDH.
  4. ^ The vocative, which is not usually distinct from the nominative in native ān-stem nouns,
    • 2019, Miller, D. Gary, β€œThe nominal system, 3.3 Noun inflection”, in The Oxford Gothic Grammarβ€Ž[2] (in English), β†’ISBN, page 61:
      cf. atta 'father; God' attested in all cases:[…] No vocative is recognized by SnΓ¦dal, but it is atta, identical to the nominative,
    is here, so that nominative, accusative and vocative all appear very similar to their Greek equivalent. The Gothic genitive πŒΆπŒ°π‡πŒ°π‚πŒΉπŒΉπŒ½πƒ renders both ΢αχαρίου and ΢αχαρίαν from the Greek Vorlage.
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