𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻

Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tunglą (“celestial body”). Cognate to Old Norse tungl (“moon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtunɡl/, [ˈtuŋɡl]

Noun

𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻 • (tuggl) n

1. (hapax) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. firmament
   2. constellation
   3. star
   4. luminous celestial body
   • 4th Century, Wulfila (tr.), Gothic Bible: Epistle to the Galatians (Codex Ambrosianus A) 4.3:

     𐌿𐍆 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻𐌰𐌼

     uf tugglam

     […] under the elements: […] (KJV).

Usage notes

Attested only in the dative plural as a gloss to 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌱𐌹𐌼 𐌸𐌹𐍃 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍈𐌰𐌿𐍃 (stabim þis fairƕaus) (an obscure phrase apparently meaning something along the lines of "the elements of the universe") in Galatians 4:3.

Reconstruction notes

The gender and stem of this word cannot be ascertained from its one appearance (𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻𐌰𐌼 (tugglam), dative plural). It may have been an a-stem or an-stem of either masculine or neuter gender. Streitberg (who assigns the meaning "Gestirn" to it) reconstructs a neuter a-stem, presumably based on the word's Germanic cognates.

Declension

Neuter a-stem
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻 tuggl	𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻𐌰 tuggla
Vocative	𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻 tuggl	𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻𐌰 tuggla
Accusative	𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻 tuggl	𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻𐌰 tuggla
Genitive	𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻𐌹𐍃 tugglis	𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻𐌴 tugglē
Dative	𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻𐌰 tuggla	𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻𐌰𐌼 tugglam

See also

• 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍈𐌿𐍃 (fairƕus, “world”)

References

• Streitberg, Wilhelm (1910). Die gotische Bibel. Zweiter Teil: Gotisch-griechisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, p. 142