Re: Indika

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: Indika


> Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@...>:
>
> > Andreas Johansson scripsit:
> >
> > > Does anything know anything more about this? In particular, about
> > the
> > > possibiltiy of 'Eire' being cognate?
> >
> > I don't believe it, but I can't bring any evidence to bear against it
> > either.
> >
> > In poking around for this, I ran into a truly astounding doublet,
> > whereby
> > the Greek root "authent-" has come into English twice: "authentic" <
> > Fr
> > < Latin < Gk, and "effendi" < Turkish < MGk.
>
> And was does "effendi" mean? I've seen it in Turkish names often enough,
but I
> don't think I've ever seen it in English? The dictionaries I check didn't
have
> it.
It's "mister", isn't it?

>                                                    Andreas
>