First ever Proto-Germanic rock song: "Kwam ne Haima"

[@Þeudōrīkē]

In unkiris frumini skulodagai sneumô lelaikū, andi hlōgū samana dēdū dwēsô skitį jugunþiz hampidē swa sneumô (þu) skalt witaną, mīnas frijond þō munīz bring(andi) tagrō in augini foljandi galikaz murginsōlō Ek man smartô , Izi ne her laibidǭ þek Immi sairagaz mōtidǭ mawjǭ, kwam ne haimą allō jērō ferrai wunadēdū mōtidēdū twaimēlō jērai sprekōz umbi airidaganz auk munīz kindō lelaikun galikaz wit dēdū (þu) skalt witaną, mīnas frijond jabai Wurdinz kwēdīn: web aftrą! neitjaų: unkerō lībō blōandai!

[@KamilMalach]

Hits like memories of fourth century migration period. Jokes aside, it's beautiful. Thank you for this.

[@Þeudōrīkē]

I'm glad you liked it!

[@Eonwe]

Elegiac. Very Germanic

[@al3xa723]

🗣️🔥🔥🔥 rah!

[@LuciaSims745]

Þankaz broþar. Beautiful song in Proto-Germanic. I love the word Skulodagaz it sounds beautiful, this language is so old, mysterious and fascinating for me. Proto-Germanic really does sound like Old English, Old High German, Frankish, Old Dutch and Skandinavian languages all mixed together, this must be the second language they spoke after Indo European language? Oh, and there are also a lot of Latin and Greek influence in those old languages. Great work. It would be awesome if you could sing Rune by Skald in Proto-Germanic. 🙏 It would fit well together, because of the Futhark Runes, the song is awesome too, you should listen.

[@Þeudōrīkē]

Between Indo-European and Proto-Germanic, there was another stage we call "Pre-Germanic". Which is basically PIE with some distinct regional caracteristics. I don't know much about Pre-Germanic though. Please keep in mind that the Proto-germanic that I use in my videos is one of many possible interpretations of the languages. I build sentences in one way, but others might reconstruct it differently. The rules are not as well set as we'd like them to be. This makes it even more fascinating (to me).

[@Irvine-w3j]

Magnifique chanson. Continue !

[@Þeudōrīkē]

Merci!

[@davnico9958]

Quel artiste ! Zuper effets spéciaux ^^

[@Þeudōrīkē]

T'as vu? ma guitare disparait parfois! truc de ouf!

[@YusifTheBaldEagle]

Das ist so schön

[@Þeudōrīkē]

Danke!

[@learningoldgermaniclanguages]

Very impressive. Well done.

[@Þeudōrīkē]

Thank you. It means a lot to me, coming from a fellow germanic linguist :)

[@MasonMorgen]

Skibidi tēlitae.

[@quamne]

I have that exact same Ibanez

[@KotrokoranaMavokely]

❤❤❤❤

[@Hrjakinsteinberg]

How do you do the translation? Do you use books or machine translation? And if you use books, which ones?

[@Þeudōrīkē]

I have my own dictionary that I have based on other dictionaries made by scholars (Kroone, Orel, Ringe) most (but far from all) are references on the wiktionary nowadays which is practical. If necessary, I sometimes reconstruct words directly from old Norse and sometimes from old English and Gothic. Machines, like AI, are pretty much useless for this for now.

[@Dasyuhan]

Good job bro. How good is chatgpt for pg?

[@Þeudōrīkē]

GPT is really bad for ancient languages, he mixes up declensions, invents words and suffixes. It's a no go when it comes to protogermanic.

[@JHenryEden]

how does one determine that or when a noun should have its correct gendered ending? For instance: "Skulodagai" I assume that the first word is ended as "Skulô" (in feminine) but then we have "dagai" which is from "Dagaz" (masculine or neuter)

[@Þeudōrīkē]

"dagaz" is masculine, and in this case, the day is the main noun within the compound. And here its dative singular, hence "dagai"

[@JHenryEden]

@@Þeudōrīkē eventually i will try to translate a song too, the accuracy of which might be questionable. also: yeah the fact that the day is the main noun of the compound makes sense because if you expanded it in its own sentence it'd be "the day of school" skulodagai. Schultag. Schoolday. makes sense, thank you!