From: Brian M. Scott Message: 33383 Date: 2004-07-05
At 7:32:17 AM on Monday, July 5, 2004, tgpedersen wrote:
> And here it comes: Gothic ni aiw "never", a ne-pas
> construction (cf ne-aiw > Engl. no); <aiw> means
> "whatsoever".
I doubt that last. I have only seen <áiws> glossed 'time,
age, eternity' and the like, <áiw> being, I believe, the
acc.sing.; <ni áiw> seems to be something like 'not ever'.