Wulfila

[ wool-fuh-luh ]

noun

1. Ulfilas.

Wulfila

/ ˈwʊlfɪlə /

noun

1. same as Ulfilas

Example Sentences

Their leader, Wulfila, chose a translation for “Lord”, frauja, that meant something like the head of a household.

From Economist

Other tribes chose a word more suitable for a military chieftain—as would the Goths, one might think, but it seems Wulfila wanted to wean his people off marauding.

From Economist

The language itself, as might be expected from the date of Wulfila’s translation, is of a much more archaic type than that of any other Teutonic writings which we possess, except a few of the earliest Northern inscriptions.

From Project Gutenberg

All these texts are written in a special character, which is said to have been invented by Wulfila.

From Project Gutenberg

The Goths had, centuries earlier, under their famous bishop Ulfilas or Wulfila, possessed the Bible in their vernacular, the northern races could point to their Edda, the Germanic tribes in England to a rich and virile Old English poetry, before a written German literature of any consequence existed at all.

From Project Gutenberg