Re: new Klingon spelling

John Cowan wrote:
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> Andreas Johansson scripsit:
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> > _German-_ meanng "relatives"? Do you have any more info on that?
>
> Plain Latin: a better reading would be "the siblings".  It's possible that
> the Latin word Germanus 'a German' has nothing to do with the ordinary
> adj. germanus 'of a brother/sister, real, genuine', but surely that's the
> null hypothesis.  We also have OIr gair 'neighbor', which would suggest
> "neighbors [of the Celts]" as a reading.

Related English word: "germane," meaning "on topic" from
Middle English "germain" = closely related, from Latin
"germanus."