Mana kartam construction in Gothic?

From: Torsten
Message: 66020
Date: 2010-03-27

I was wondering whether the Gothic weak nom.acc. manna was actually originally a strong dative, seeing that many of the occurrences are with preterito-presents, eg here
(search for 'manna' in
http://www.wulfila.be/Corpus/Find.asp )

Matth 6,24
manna mag

Matthew 8:28
ni mahta manna

John 6:44
manna mag

John 7:27
ni manna wait

John 9:4
ni manna mag

etc


in which case those preterito-presents were perhaps once intransitive construed with datives, cf
Russian mne moz^no "I may" (= Proto-Goth. mis mag ?)


Torsten