Wulfila

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

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

In the Gothic alone, of all the great Teutonic dialects,—the language into which Bishop Wulfila translated the Scriptures in the fourth century,—the cognate equivalent of our English mother does not appear.

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.