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Re: new Klingon spelling

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 6, 2004, 13:51
John Cowan wrote:

>Andreas Johansson scripsit: > > > >>_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. > > > >>I've seen the meaning "spearmen" suggested. >> >> > >Also possible: Common Gmc *gair- 'spear'. > >
As in: Hwæt! We gar-dena in gear-dagum Listen! We of spear-danes in yore-days First line of Beowulf. The verb (gefrunon), hear, comes in the second line.