[gothic-l] Totila rec

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Like was said earlier here, Proto-Indo-European had contact with other
people. I don't know what King is in Persian, but maybe the Persians
brought it to Aramaic, just a theory, but I don't know enough about it to
say anything useful, this is just something I came up with.

2014-12-20 22:51 GMT+01:00 Yair Davidiy britam at netvision.net.il [gothic-l] <
gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>:

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> At 09:29 PM 12/20/2014, you wrote:
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> The Celtic proto-form that Germanic adopted was apparently a
> consonant-stem rather than o-stem noun, thus Celtic *riks (gen. sg. *-rigi,
> etc.) rather than *rigos. Gothic 'reiks' is a consonant-stem, as is the
> Gaulish counterpart, hence the Latinized forms in -rix rather than -ricus
> in such Gaulish names as 'Ainorix, Biturix, Uercingetorix,' etc. (see
> Xavier Delamarre's >Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise<, 2003, pp.
> 259-260). In his >Handbook of Germanic Etymology< (2003, p. 305), Orel also
> reconstructs a consonant-stem.
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> What about rec, rica (king) in Aramaic.
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> Genesis 41:
> 43He had him ride in the chariot of his second-in-command; and they cried
> out in front of him, ‘Av-rec!’ Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.
> See Rashi.  Av (father)-rec (king).
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> The later Latinized Germanic names ending in -ricus likely reflect a shift
> in nominal class, from the consonant-stem group, which was a dying/dead
> class, to the productive a-stem class.
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> Edmund
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