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.

                                                   Andreas

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