LL-L "Names" 2008.05.02 (05) [E]

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From: Luc Hellinckx <luc.hellinckx at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Phonology"

Beste Ingmar & Ron,

Ingmar wrote:

I pronounce it "baSIlicum" [ba"silik at m] in Dutch. So with an S instead of
a Z and with the second syllable stressed.


Same stress here for basilicum, but with a Z (and "basiLIek" indeed).
However, a shopping mall, near the big basilica of Koekelberg (Brussels) is
called "BAsilix", but with a Z (stress on "ba", even in French I think).

Btw, "la Basilicata" is also a region in Southern Italy, that used to be
called Lucania. Some think that Luc(as) < Loukanos = Greek for "man from
Lucania". The region used to be inhabited by Greek people, and Basilicata <
Basilikos (Greek for "official of the king"), as it was part of Magna
Graecia. Apparently, Saxons (of all people :-D )  tried to eradicate this
Greek presence in Italy. More about the Italo/Greek character of Southern
Italy:

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Italo-Greeks<http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_%281913%29/Italo-Greeks>

Earlier on, Ron found it interesting that English has (Orthodox) names like
Cyril and Basil. Well, we used to have those names too in Southern Dutch.
They were quite popular at the end of the 19th century. I guess they were
imported from French, but whether French had them before or after English, I
don't know. Was the influence of the Greek-Orthodox/Russian-Orthodox church
stronger in England than in France at the time?

Kind greetings,

Luc Hellinckx

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