๐Œธ๐Œน๐Œฟ๐Œณ๐Œน๐ƒ๐Œบ๐‰

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Gothic

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Etymology

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From *๐Œธ๐Œน๐Œฟ๐Œณ๐Œน๐ƒ๐Œบ๐ƒ (*รพiudisks, โ€œpertaining to a nation or nationsโ€) +‎ -๐‰ (-ล, suffix forming adverbs from adjectives), calque of Ancient Greek แผฮธฮฝฮนฮบแฟถฯ‚ (ethnikรดs). The first element can be analyzed as ๐Œธ๐Œน๐Œฟ๐Œณ๐Œฐ (รพiuda, โ€œpeople, nationโ€) + -๐Œน๐ƒ๐Œบ๐ƒ (-isks). It is unattested in the limited corpus that survives, but likely existed in the Gothic language as an inherited word from Proto-Germanic *รพiudiskaz. Compare ๐Œน๐Œฟ๐Œณ๐Œฐ๐Œน๐…๐Œน๐ƒ๐Œบ๐‰ (iudaiwiskล, โ€œin a manner characteristic of Jewsโ€).

Adverb

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๐Œธ๐Œน๐Œฟ๐Œณ๐Œน๐ƒ๐Œบ๐‰ โ€ข (รพiudiskล)

  1. (Christianity) in a manner characteristic of heathens or gentiles