LL-L "Etymology" 2002.01.31 (04) [E]

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From: Sandy Fleming [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: "Etymology"

> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Etymology

> Neither can I.  But apparently this connection has not been made.  Or
> has it?  I wonder if Welsh etymologists have come up with Latin _lumen_
> Welsh _llumon_.

I wonder if there are any Welsh etymologists? Y Geiriadur Mawr
unfortunately gives no etymology for anything even though it
translates as "The Big Dictionary"!

> From: AEDUIN at aol.com
> Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2002.01.30 (09) [E]
>
> Dear Sandy
>
> By the time the Romano-British were facing the Anglo-Saxons the Roman
> invasion was roughly 400 years  in the past. There was no Roman assistance
> with which to ally. Any borrowings would have been before this
> date. In fact
> they may not have been borrowings but part of the evolving of a Lingua
> Latina.

Edwin,

I believe I was corrected on this very point the last time Roman
Britain came up on the list! While I would say I know a reaasonable
amount of history, chronology seems a particularly weak point with me.

I suppose that since I was talking about Welsh and place names
in Wales in the etymology discussion I should have stuck to the
Romans in Wales. They seem to have had a particularly strong
military presence in south east Wales, so the Romanisation of
Welsh (as opposed to other types of Brythonic) may have been
particularly pronounced.

Sandy
http://scotstext.org
A dinna dout him, for he says that he
On nae accoont wad ever tell a lee.
                          - C.W.Wade,
                    'The Adventures o McNab'

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