31 January 2019

TOBÀK, TOBEK ~ to-back

Swedish filmposter 'Back to the Future' (crop)

back (to) - English
tilbage - Danish
tilbake - Norse
tillbaka - Swedish
tebek - Frisian
til baka - Icelandic
(terug/zurück - Dutch/German)
note: (noun)
back - English
bak/ hryggur - Icelandic
rug - Dutch, Afrikaans
rêch - Frisian
ryg/ rygg - Danish/ Norse, Swedish
rik - Westflemmish
Rücken - German

also:
backward - English (Dutch: achterwaards/ German: rückwärts/ Icelandic: afturábak/ etc.)
efterbaks/ achterbaks (underhanded, literally 'behind the back') - Frisian/ Dutch

variety and fragment numbers:

TOBEK - 1,12-25 (15x)
TOBÀK  - 2-4,6-7,9-10 (7x)
in combination with:
- KVMA (come): 2-4,7,10,13-15,17-18,23(2x),24-25
- KÉRA (turn): 1,20
- GVNG (go): 6,22
- FÁRA (fare, travel): 12
- DRIWA (drive): 9
- FORA (lead, drive): 16
- LÉD (lead): 21
- WÉRON (were): 19

BÀKWARD - 8,11

ÀFTERBÀKIS - 5


fragment 9

1 [016: page number in original manuscript]
SKILUN JÉRLIKES HVNDRED TOBEK KÉRA

2 [026]
KVMATH HJA TOBÀK

3 [027]
KVMON HJA TOBÀK

4 [030]
KVMTH.ER THÀN TOBÀK

5 [043]
HWA THÉR EN ÔTHER ÀFTERBÀKIS BITIGHATH

6 [044]
THÁ GVNG HI TO.BÀK ÀND KÉRDE WITHER

7 [048]
FOR THAT HJA NAVT TOBÀK KVMA NE SKOLDE

8 [054]
SÁ HI BÀK.WARD SLOCH

9 [054]
HWAT SKOLDE THAT ÉR.RIK FÁRI WÉSA
ASTE THA WILDA WITHER TOBÀK DRIWA KOSTE.
What honor it would be for you 
if you could drive back the savages!

10 [055]
AS WODIN NW TOBÀK KÉM

11 [056]
FÉLO MÁGJARA FLODON MITH HJARA LJVDA BÀKWARD

12 [066]
FOR JON TOBEK

13 [070]
THÁ KÉMON HJA TOBEK

14 [104]
STORNEWIND KÉM TOBEK

15 [117]
THA MÀNNISKA THÉR TOBEK KÉMON

16 [118]
TOBEK FORA NÉI HJRA LÁNDUM

17 [119]
AND FÉLO HÉLÉNJA FOLGAR TOBEK KÉMON

18 [121]
JEF WI NAVT TOBEK KVMA NILDE

19 [121]
THÁ THI ALLE TOBEK WÉRON.

20 [122]
NW WILDER TOBEK KÉRA

21 [125]
LÉD.ER VS TOBEK

22 [131]
ÀFTERNÉI SEN HJA TO BEK GVNGON

23 [146]
ÀFTERNÉI KÉMON WEL FÉLO DÉNE.MARKAR TOBEK [...] AS THA STJÛRAR TOBEK KÉMON

24 [201]
THÁ.ER TOBEK KÉM

25 [205]
RÉINTJA WAS AL TOBEK KVMEN

Moko zokusen taiji no zu (Driving back Mongolian pirate ships) - Japan 1863 (fragment, source)


also see:
A.BEFTA KÉRA (turn back)
OM/ OMME (KÉRA etc.): around, about
WITHER (KÉRA etc.): again, back