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Re: Indika

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 20:16
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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