Re: Just a Little Taste of Judean (Part 2)

Tom Wier wrote:

> Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> > Tom Wier wrote:
> > > German "heute" comes from Latin "hodie",
> >
> > Does that mean "today"?!  If so, it certainly seems surprising that t=
he
> > word for "today" would be a borrowing.
>
> Yes -- but why is that strange?  German was under heavy influence durin=
g
> the occupation of the Rhine after Augustus.   There are lots of words t=
hat
> are closet borrowings (like "kaufen" ["to buy"] from "caup=F4", or "M=FC=
ller"
> ["miller"] from "mola", the grindstone in mills).   English, too, borro=
wed
> words from Latin before it was English, when it was "Urplattdeutsch" :)
One thing I'd further like to point out is the fact that the Rhine river =
was,
at that time, much like the Rio Grande in the US, insofar as the German
speaking communities probably had a high degree of bilingualism with the
Latin speaking colonials to the south of the river (since trade in goods =
like
wine and manufactured items was almost exclusively carried out by
Roman Latin-speaking merchants), and so there was probably
a lot of codeswitching going on.   So, to me, it doesn't seem at all stra=
nge
that a basic word would infiltrate once or twice.  Remember:  most of
the basic vocabulary stayed very much Germanic, so it's not really that
statistically unlikely.

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Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
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There's nothing particularly wrong with the
proletariat. It's the hamburgers of the
proletariat that I have a problem with. - Alfred Wallace
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