[split] Discussion of f116v interpretations by Anton Alipov

[ThomasCoon]

All right, I'm familiar with gâhes (as "quickly" "in a hurry") but didn't know it existed as gâs at that time and didn't make the connection between gâhes and gâs.

I'm less certain about "milch" with a missing "l". If the parts are taken together, it seems plausible as it would be contextually meaningful, but when looked at individually, it seems like a stretch that milch would be misspelled when mich is a common word that is so distinctly different in meaning.


Geis I find plausible because it might be pronounced and spelled with an "a" in the central and northern areas in middle ages. It's an interesting word as it is associated in Celtic lore with spells (both curses and blessings). If the preceding text is a charm, it would fit right in and could mean something like "so to take the curse [from] me". It's still somewhat bad grammar, but isn't any worse than many of the alternative suggestions.

The reason I suggested "geismi[l]ch" is because it appears to be one word (the dot between them is likely the missing ascender for the "m", which means the phrase is one long word with no space in between). If that is the case, "geismilch" / "gasmilch" makes perfect sense. The "L" could have fallen out because of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - for the same reason we don't pronounce the "L" in "walk".

You are obviously a German student if you are familiar with MHG - just out of curiosity, can I ask where you come from, and what your degrees are? I have a Master's in German (specialization Linguistics) and am glad to find a fellow Germanicist

I was also not aware of the association to Celtic lore - very interesting! Now it's just the question of whether the word is clearly separate from "mich" or not.