Re: French for "Kingdom" (Was Re: Language naming terminology)
| From: | Raymond A. Brown <raybrown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 24, 1998, 5:55 |
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At 9:17 pm -0500 23/9/98, Tom Wier wrote:
>Nik Taylor wrote:
[.....]
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>It is of course possible that Ray's etymology from Lat. <reg=E2limen>
>is correct, but our dear friends the lexicographers would have us think
>otherwise.
Not all lexicographers ;)
It's not my etymology - it's certainly given by some lexicographers.
But then 're:ga:limen' itself must surely be a conflation of Classical
're:gimen' and 're:ga:lis' which accords very much with your own theory.
Ray.