I haven't posted in a while because you seem to be
mostly advanced scholars and I am having trouble
getting my feet wet. I don't understand how adjectives
and nouns relate to one another and one site says that
e.g. a-stems are called that because these are words
that had an a in the stem in the past, but no longer.
I'm frustrated as to how to tell how to decline a noun
if there is no way to tell whether its an a stem, ja
stem, etc.
I'm trying to design names and titles for a story
character, but do I use nominative nor accusative for
a name of a nation, group of people. If I wanted to
say father of all, but not al-father, implying a
connection with a norse God, or if I'm trying to say
Alfarallanaldar andf don't know how case, number,
gender, etc are related I can't create a name for the
person, ethnic group, etc. Can anyone help me?
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> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:09:27 -0000
> From: "llama_nom" <600cell@...>
> Subject: Re: Hey everybody...and I have Question.
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> --- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Daos_1"
> <ninpuucho@...> wrote:
> > Sooo, from everyone else's as well as yours, Sigra
> is basically a
> > physical conquering of other people, which i can't
> really use. I
> need
> > a word for Overcome as meaning to go through a
> tough trial or
> > experience and overcome it. You know, a struggle
> within yourself.
> You
> > wanna quit, but you keep pushing, and overcome.
> >
> > sorry for being such a bother...but this is kinda
> critical for me to
> > get that exact word...thanks so much to you all.
> *thumbs up*
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> No bother, not if it teaches is something. For want
> of more OIc.
> examples, we could look at Google for modern
> Icelandic usage. I see
> there are a few where 'sigra' is used nonphysically,
> e.g. triumph over
> evil, defeat good with evil, conquer/overcome
> desires, as well as
> victory in sports, battle, etc. And, as I
> mentioned, I did find some
> figurative examples from Old Icelandic too: to
> defeat "rage with
> patience" (reiðini með þolinmæði) and to overcome
> "their
> stubbornness/agression" (þrálæti þeirra). So you
> could well be
> alright with that after all.
>
> 'sigrast á', with the object in the dative case,
> appears in a lot of
> contexts. It seems to be used for triumph over
> adversities in modern
> Icelandic at least. Google has examples of this
> verb used in MIc. for
> triumph over trouble, stress, illness, fear, fear of
> the dark, doubt,
> dyslexia, drug addition and sexual predilections,
> etc. as well as
> plain old "enemies". In standardised Old Norse
> spelling, in the
> system used by Norse Course and Gordon's
> Introduction to Old Norse,
> that would look like 'sigrask á'.
>
> Llama Nom
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