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Wulfila

[wool-fuh-luh]

noun

  1. Ulfilas.



Wulfila

/ ˈwʊlfɪlə /

noun

  1. same as Ulfilas

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Their leader, Wulfila, chose a translation for “Lord”, frauja, that meant something like the head of a household.

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All these texts are written in a special character, which is said to have been invented by Wulfila.

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In the Gothic alone, of all the great Teutonic dialects,—the language into which Bishop Wulfila translated the Scriptures in the fourth century,—the cognate equivalent of our English mother does not appear.

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Other tribes chose a word more suitable for a military chieftain—as would the Goths, one might think, but it seems Wulfila wanted to wean his people off marauding.

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