From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 18445
Date: 2003-02-05
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Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: [tied] Latin versus *Proto-Romance
> Which means, I suppose, it would work if North Germanic society was
two- (or several-) tiered, which is also what the story says?
First, we are talking of West Germanic, more likely, and secondly, why should the word for the _lowest_ stratum of freemen have been borrowed with the meaning 'king' (superior to *kUne~dzI <-- *kuningaz)? Just because there were some humans less important than the churls?
Piotr