Re: [tied] caleo was [calendar]

From: alexmoeller@...
Message: 17290
Date: 2002-12-26

P&G wrote:
>> In some dictionaries the verb "caleo" is given as beeing a loan from
>> Etruscan. ...> Greek = kalein
>
> caleo is a totally different word form calo/kalo. The root caleo
> shows the typical three-fold pattern of Latin stative verbs:
> caleo = to be warm
> calidus = warm
> calor = warmth
> (for this pattern cf rigeo, rigidus, rigor; timeo, timidus, timor,
> and many others).
> The etymology of this word is indeed unclear.


I wonder if there are any cognates for Latin "caleo" = "warm"
The Rom. word "cald" shows a simple syncope of "calidus" since in
Eastern Romance the "s" was mute.
But I wonder about the Rom. adj. "cãlâie"= "warm" which is given with an
unknown etymology since the phonetic form it has, doesnt allow to think
it could derive from Latin.
It seems pretty interesting the phonetic parallelism and the semantic
identity of
latin "caleo" versus rom. "cãlâie"
The Rom. verb " a incãlzi" =" to warm" is tought to come from "cald"
from Latin "calidus" and not from "cãlâi"



regards
Alex