Token: gasehvun

Context

Mark 2:12

^CA jah urrais suns jah ushafjands badi usiddja faura andwairþja allaize, swaswe usgeisnodedun allai jah hauhidedun mikiljandans guþ, qiþandans þatei aiw swa ni gasehvun.

— καὶ ἠγέρθη καὶ εὐθὺς ἄρας τὸν κράβαττον ἐξῆλθεν ἔμπροσθεν πάντων, ὥστε ἐξίστασθαι πάντας καὶ δοξάζειν τὸν θεὸν λέγοντας ὅτι οὕτως οὐδέποτε εἴδομεν.

— And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.

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Analysis

• Lemma ga-saihvan : Verb (inflection: abl.V.5) (more)
  WS 1910: erblicken [perfektiv]
  • Active Indicative Preterite 3rd Person Plural

Status: verified and/or disambiguated.

Notes

Streitberg's apparatus: gasehvum] Gabelentz-Löbe, gasehvū CA.

The nasal abbreviation in the manuscript can be expanded to /n/ or /m/: gasehvun (‘regular’ indirect speech) or gasehvum (þatei before direct speech, closely reflecting Greek εἴδομεν). See Streitberg 1981: Gotische Syntax (§355.2 and §356).

Thanks to Peter Tunstall for pointing out this issue, which was previously brought up by Richard Budelberger at the Gothic-List (in favour of gasehvum, quite reasonably so). For the moment being, our e-text sticks to Streitberg's reading, not because we believe it is the correct choice, but for the sake of consistency (at this stage — 2006 — the interim goal is a tagged transcription of Streitberg's text).