Re: CHAT: Ave Maria
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 29, 2000, 20:09 |
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At 14:36 29.6.2000 -0400, Padraic Brown wrote:
>God mother has connotations in English that "Mother of God"
>doesn't: i.e., baptismal sponsor. Might make for a better
>translation of Bogoroditsa / Theotokos.
Swedish makes this distinction in a rather elegant way:
"baptismal sponsor" is _gudmo(de)r_, while "Mother of God" is _gudsmoder_,
i.e. with "god's" as the first element. Unincidentally _gudsmor_ would
look strange with the shortened form _mor_, while _gudmoder_ would look
deliberately archaizing, but this difference is stylistic rather than
semantic. BTW there is also the form _gudamoder_, with the old gen.pl. =
"gods'"; it would be applied to a figure like Hera.
/BP
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