Re: Baby conlang L3 needs a name
| From: | Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 20, 2008, 17:49 |
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On 21/03/2008, Peter Collier <petecollier@...> wrote:
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> no, from *þeudiskaz, Germanic for "people" (< indo-european *teuta =
> "tribe").
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> "þeuda" = people, "-isk" = ish
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> Latin borrowed the term as Theodiscus, modern English cognate is of course
> "Dutch"
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> Pete.
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"Thiudiskaz" in proto-Germanic, says Wikipedia, and similarly "theod"
in Old G., from "theudo" in proto-G. Which is correct? Of course, I
mean more rigorously affirmed and argued for and accepted.
Supplement:
And of course we know that "Teuton" is also sometimes used as a
synonym for "German".
Eugene
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