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Re: Indika

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 20:20
----- 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 >