Pater Noster in Old Prussian

Language: Old Prussian (Wikipedia)

Thawe nouson kas thou æsse ændengon¹ Swintits² wirse twais emmens. Pareysey³ noumans⁴ twayia ryeky. Tways quaits audaseisin⁵ na semmiey⁶ kay endengan⁷ Nouson deyninan geytiey days noumans schindeynan. Bhæ etwerpeis noumans nouson anschautins, kay mes etwerpimay⁸ nouson anschautinekamans.⁹ Bhæ ni wedeys mans enperbandasnan. Slait¹⁰ is rankeis mans æsse wargan. Emmen.

Footnotes

1: Chamberlayne, Pantographia: endengon
2: Chamberlayne: Swyntits, Pantographia: swytits
3: Chamberlayne, Pantographia: parey sey
4: Chamberlayne, Pantographia: noumaus
5: Chamberlayne, Pantographia: audaseysin
6: Pantographia: semiey
7: Chamberlayne, Pantographia: endengon
8: Chamberlayne, Pantographia: etwerpymay
9: Pantographia: The text is cut off at this point, except for Emmen at the end
10: Chamberlayne: slaitt

Attested In

• Hartknoch p. 93
• Chamberlayne p. 86 (Prutenice. Ex eodem.) – ex Chr. Hartknochii Dissert. 5 de Ling. vet. Prus. pag. 86. 87
• Hervas p. 164 n. 127 (Prutenica)
• Pantographia p. 242 (Prussian 2) – Orat. Dom. Amst. p. 86
• Adelung Part 2 p. 704 n. 302 (Alt-Preussisch) – In Samländischen Dialect nach der zweyten Ausgabe, von eben dem Jahre <1545>

Notes

According to the referenced book, the text comes from the "corrected" version of Old Prussian Catechism published in Königsberg in 1545.

Bibliography

• Old Prussian Written Monuments by Mykolas Letas Palmaĭtis (2007)