CLAIM / COUNTERCLAIM / LIMITRECORD 684
DISPUTE
RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
openestablished
Is John 7:23 the first Gothic use of the verb?
Not established. The translation belongs to a fourth-century tradition, the surviving codex is early sixth century, and no complete lost-text or spoken-language archive exists.
WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 684
hatizōn
not directly recoverable · Gothic class-II weak-verb lemma
A Gothic weak verb meaning be angry with or at someone, represented by exactly one verified corpus token: present active second-person plural hatizoþ in John 7:23. Project Wulfila and Streitberg align the form with Greek χολᾶτε in the question “are you angry at me?” and analyze the verb with a dative object. The University of Texas derivational grammar builds class-II hatizōn on the consonantal stem hatiz- of hatis “hatred” or “wrath”; Wright independently lists it as a class-II weak verb. The macronized infinitive is a scholarly citation form, while the manuscript writes only the inflected token without a vowel-length mark. The route continues through the reviewed Germanic noun family and a qualified Indo-European comparison, then stops. One corpus token cannot establish spoken rarity, first use, a complete semantic range, exact pronunciation, or one prehistoric essence.
01DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
2 SOURCES WITH A STANCE
A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.
SOURCE 01supportsresearch database
Gothic Bible word analysis — John 7:23, hatizoþ
Locates the extant token without calling it first use.
John 7:23 corpus and manuscript locator- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Project Wulfila editors · Wilhelm Streitberg
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Project Wulfila · University of Antwerp
SOURCE 02contextmanuscript catalog
The history of Codex argenteus
Separates the fourth-century translation from the early-sixth-century object.
Codex Argenteus translation and manuscript history- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Uppsala University Library
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Uppsala University
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE QUESTION REMAINS OPEN.
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- STATUS
- open
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- The corpus locates the extant token while manuscript history separates translation and object dates.
WHY NO RESOLUTIONThe reviewed evidence does not yet warrant collapsing the competing or incomplete analyses into one secure answer.