Talk:rignbuga

rignbuga
Gothic: "rainbow"

I've seen rign and buga in Gothic references online, but not the compound. There's a good reason for that: almost the entire corpus is made up of biblical translations, and there's simply no occurrence of a word for rainbow in any of the parts of the scriptures that are covered by the surviving manuscripts (I checked). Chuck Entz (talk) 06:06, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Gerhard Koebler's dictionary of Gothic doesn't contain it, so I doubt it's attested. It was added by an IP user from France that keeps adding unattested Gothic and other things. They refuse all communication; the only time they ever said anything has been in edit messages and that was when they were edit warring. They're like the user that keeps adding strange Japanese entries except less prolific. 17:40, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I could only find this. I doubt this word is attested, but it's possible it was used in speech. By the way, what's the policy with keeping unattested descendants in proto-language pages, e.g. Appendix:Proto-Germanic/regnabugô? πr2  ( talk  •   changes ) 16:05, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
 * We link them as reconstructed terms. 21:57, 16 November 2013 (UTC)