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PRONUNCIATION OF WULFILA

Wulfila  [ˈwʊlfɪlə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WULFILA

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Wulfila is a noun.
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WHAT DOES WULFILA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Wulfila

Ulfilas

Ulfilas, also Ulphilas, Orphila, bishop, missionary, and Bible translator, was a Goth or half-Goth and half-Greek from Cappadocia who had spent time inside the Roman Empire at the peak of the Arian controversy. Ulfilas was ordained a bishop by Eusebius of Nicomedia and returned to his people to work as a missionary. In 348, to escape religious persecution by a Gothic chief, probably Athanaric he obtained permission from Constantius II to migrate with his flock of converts to Moesia and settle near Nicopolis ad Istrum in modern northern Bulgaria. There, Ulfilas translated the Bible from Greek into the Gothic language. For this he devised the Gothic alphabet. Fragments of his translation have survived, notably the Codex Argenteus held since 1648 in the University Library of Uppsala in Sweden. A parchment page of this Bible was found in 1971 in the Speyer Cathedral. According to Karl Lund, Ulfilas created the Gothic alphabet based on the Getae's alphabet, with minor alterations.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WULFILA


ala
ˈeɪlə
Anguilla
æŋˈɡwɪlə
caffila
ˈkɑːfɪlə
drosophila
drɒˈsɒfɪlə
filler
ˈfɪlə
fulfiller
fʊlˈfɪlə
gypsophila
dʒɪpˈsɒfɪlə
killer
ˈkɪlə
Manila
məˈnɪlə
miller
ˈmɪlə
nemophila
nəˈmɒfɪlə
similar
ˈsɪmɪlə
Taylor
ˈteɪlə
thriller
ˈθrɪlə
time-filler
ˈtaɪmˌfɪlə
trailer
ˈtreɪlə
Tyler
ˈtaɪlə
Ulfila
ˈʊlfɪlə
Venezuela
ˌvɛnɪˈzweɪlə
villa
ˈvɪlə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WULFILA

Wu Ti
Wu-hsi
Wu-lu-mu-ch´i
Wuchang
wudjula
wudu
Wuhan
Wuhsien
Wuhu
wukkas
wulfenite
wunderkind
Wundt
Wuppertal

WORDS THAT END LIKE WULFILA

agila
Aquila
Attila
Bikila
Coahuila
fila
Gila
hila
Kabila
l´Aquila
maquila
mochila
pila
sheila
strobila
tequila
Tutuila
voila
zila

Synonyms and antonyms of Wulfila in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Wulfila
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Wulfila
570 millions of speakers

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Wulfila
510 millions of speakers

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Wulfila
380 millions of speakers
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Wulfila
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Wulfila
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Wulfila
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Wulfila
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Wulfila
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Wulfila
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Wulfila
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Wulfila
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Wulfila
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Wulfila
85 millions of speakers
vi

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Wulfila
80 millions of speakers

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Wulfila
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वुफिला
75 millions of speakers

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Wulfila
70 millions of speakers

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Wulfila
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Wulfila
50 millions of speakers

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Wulfila
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Ulfila
30 millions of speakers
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Wulfila
15 millions of speakers
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Wulfila
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Wulfilas
10 millions of speakers
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Wulfila
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Wulfila

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WULFILA»

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The Sounds and Phonemes of Wulfila's Gothic
James W. Marchand. 3.02 Are all errors errors of the scribes? Before we decide to charge all the errors found to the account of later scribes, it would be well to remember the words of Bernhardt, so often forgotten by later scholars: Vielerlei ...
James W. Marchand, 1973
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The Gospel of saint Mark in Gothic, according to the tr. ...
The parents of Wulfila were Christians, of Cappa- docian origin, having been carried away as captives by the Goths in one of their raids into Asia; and it would seem that the Goths first acquired a knowledge of Christianity from their captives.
Mark (st), Walter William Skeat, 1882
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The Ostrogoths from the Migration Period to the Sixth ...
The foremost question posed by this list is what is the connection between the words given and what we know of Wulfila's Gothic of the fourth century, especially regarding features that characterize it as distinct from any other Germanic ...
S. J. B. Barnish, Federico Marazzi, 2007
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The Gospel of Saint Mark in Gothic: according to the ...
according to the translation made by Wulfila in the fourth century Rev. Walter William Skeat. at one time were settled in Moesia; its exact bounds are uncertain, and the fragments of it which have survived are almost all due to the writings of a  ...
Rev. Walter William Skeat, 1882
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Arminius: a history of the German people and of their legal ...
All other literary labours of which we have any account seem trifles in comparison with Wulfila's. The Cappadocian Philostorgius, assigns to Wulfila a descent from Cappadocian ancestors. According to his suspicious narration, the Goths, in the ...
Thomas Smith (F.S.A.), Arminius (prince of the Cherusci.), Francis Smith (rector of Moorby), 1861
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Studies in Early Germanic Biblical Literature: Medieval ...
348), Wulfila did not enjoy the stability necessary to undertake such an endeavor. 40 From his presence at the Council of Constantinople in 360 and from the creed ascribed to him by Auxentius, it is also known that Wulfila adhered to the ...
Valentine Anthony Pakis, 2008
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Old English and its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the ...
By far the mainsource forour knowledgeofGothic remains theBible translation ascribed to theGothic bishop Wulfila (ca. 311–83), which has been preserved in a number ofdifferent fragmentary manuscripts. The most precious of these is the ...
Orrin W. Robinson, 2003
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JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology
But, we are advised by Professor Wiener, Wulfila's authorship is a hollow sacrosanctism: Auxentius, Wulfila's disciple, does not allude to it, and Philostorgius, writing within half a century, must be discredited, despite his express mention of the ...
‎1916
9
Modern Philology
im werte eines Spiritus asper und des stimmlosen gutturalen Spiranten Xi ^ welche beiden im griechischen nicht bloss ein zeichen benutzt wird. Es gelingt Wimmer nicht, klar darzuthun, wie Wulfila zur kenntniss dieser laute gelangte, oder ...
‎1904
10
The Role of the Bishop in Late Antiquity: Conflict and ...
There can be little doubt that Wulfila proved himself a more than competent preacher and we are told that he made many converts. These are as likely to have been previously Trinitarian Christian, as pagan, Goths. Wulfila was, and remained ...
Andrew Fear, José Fernández Urbiña, Mar Marcos Sanchez, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WULFILA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Wulfila is used in the context of the following news items.
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An etymologist fidgets on a bad bed. Part 1: “Bed.”
Wulfila, the translator of the Gothic Bible, either did not have a synonym for badi or did not find it necessary to render the variation he found in the original text. «OUPblog, Jun 15»
2
Die Sache mit dem Apfelbäumchen Sieben gravierende Irrtümer …
Buchautor Malessa macht zwar den Gotenbischof Wulfila zum ersten deutschen Bibelübersetzer - aber die Gleichung gotisch-germanisch-deutsch ist nun ... «Sonntagsblatt, May 15»
3
Streit um Sintez-Geschäft: Millionenklage gegen SZA-Mandanten …
Nachmann (München): Josef Nachmann, Wulfila Dietzel, Dr. Lilian Milkovic, Dr. Alexander Hobelsberger – aus dem Markt bekannt. Vertreter RWE Hengeler ... «JUVE, Mar 15»
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“Erano Ariani”, un convegno dedicato al Codex Argenteus, bibbia …
Il Wulfila Tour è la parte esplorativa del progetto “Erano Ariani” e consiste in una serie di viaggi preliminari, concepiti come azione artistico-diplomatica con lo ... «Ravennanotizie.it, Oct 14»
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Anhörung der FDP: Bürger empört: DFB in Niederrad nicht …
Wulfila Walter, Büroleiter von Planungsdezernent Olaf Cunitz (Grüne), wies auf der FDP-Veranstaltung darauf hin, dass die 6,8 Millionen Euro, die der DFB bei ... «Frankfurter Neue Presse, Oct 14»
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Kissing from a strictly etymological point of view
... represented the scene), so the Hebrews and the Romans kissed as we do, and Wulfila, the translator of the Gothic Bible, probably had a similar image before ... «OUPblog, Sep 14»
7
Grüne und Frankfurter Flughafen
Fraport könne „theoretisch morgen“ damit beginnen, den Terminal zu errichten, sagte Cunitz' Büroleiter Wulfila Walter am Dienstag. Einen Tag später waren ... «taz.de, Aug 14»
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Cunitz lässt die Fluglärmgegner sitzen
Die Initiativen übergaben ihre Unterschriften und den Brief daher an den Büroleiter von Olaf Cunitz, Wulfila Walter. "Dies ersetzt keinesfalls die Diskussion mit ... «Journal Frankfurt, Jul 14»
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Who Were the Ancient Goths?
As contact with Rome intensified, a form of Christianity known as Arianism spread among the Goths. “In the 340s, the Arian Gothic bishop Ulfilas or Wulfila (d. «LiveScience.com, May 14»
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Shadow, Labyrinth, Mirror: New Species of Child-Eating Dracula …
In 1998, Wulfila Gronenberg and Bert Holldobler from Theodor Boveri Institut in Germany and Gary D. Alpert from Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology ... «Scientific American, Apr 14»

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