Re: Baby conlang L3 needs a name
| From: | Peter Collier <petecollier@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 20, 2008, 16:18 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Scotto Hlad" <scott.hlad@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: Baby conlang L3 needs a name
> Himmel...
>
> Like die + Leute + isch or something like that?
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> Fascinating!
> S
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no, from *þeudiskaz, Germanic for "people" (< indo-european *teuta =
"tribe").
"þeuda" = people, "-isk" = ish
Latin borrowed the term as Theodiscus, modern English cognate is of course
"Dutch"
Pete.
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