[gothic-l] Totila rec

Dicentis a roellingua@gmail.com [gothic-l] gothic-l at yahoogroups.com
Sat Dec 20 21:49:18 UTC 2014


Lol, can you travel in the future Yair? It says of your message: 22:51, 0
minutes ago for me. While it's 22:49.

2014-12-20 22:46 GMT+01:00 Dicentis a <roellingua at gmail.com>:

> 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>:
>
>>
>>
>> At 09:29 PM 12/20/2014, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> What about rec, rica (king) in Aramaic.
>>
>> 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).
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Edmund
>>
>>  
>>
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