NODE / 1158attestedGothic

fian

TRANSLITERATION fian

j-less variant of fijan

DATE: Gothic historical-dictionary normalization
SENSE: hate class three jless variant
FAMILY: Indo-European / East Germanic
CANONICAL KEY: node:34:fian:attested:sense:hate-class-three-jless-variant

Project Wulfila redirects fian to fijan, and Streitberg groups j-less forms under the same verb. No separate exact corpus infinitive token fian is claimed.

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Gothic · Gothic textual tradition · hate experience class three verb

fijan

to hate or detest; direct an experience of hostility toward a stimulus

SOUND: Written Gothic loses j in some fijan forms before a vowel; the historical lemma fian normalizes that j-less surface pattern.
MEANING: No lexical split is established: both shapes remain one hate verb.
CHRONOLOGY: Within the Gothic textual and scribal tradition.
SCHOLAR: Albert Morey Sturtevant · Project Wulfila editors
CONFIDENCE: probable — The variant relation is secure; its exact phonological timing and orthographic interpretation remain historical analyses.

Notes on Gothic Forms — Hatan : hatjan “to hate”supportspp. 451–452, loss of j in fijan : fian

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Lemma fian — redirect and historical dictionary variantsupportsLemma fian redirects to fijan

Treats the j-less variant as the same lexeme.

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