Re: Indika
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 18:26 |
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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.
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