Re: [tied] Lupus

--- "tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>"
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "m_iacomi
> <m_iacomi@...>"
> <m_iacomi@...> wrote:
> > In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jo�o Sim�es Lopes
> Filho wrote:
> > > There are roots *wLkWos, *wLp- *l(o)up-. Perhaps
> corrupted forms
> > > of the same, or maybe different roots mingled
> later.
> > > The usual explanation for Latin lupus and Greek
> lykos is
> > > metathesis (*wLkWo- > *lukWo-), but I suspect
> some dialetal
> > > influence.
> >
> > At least for Latin lupus, the most usual
> explanation I've seen
> > is that the word was borrowed in Latin from some
> Oscan-Umbrian
> > dialect (in which concerns the /p/). The expected
> form in Latin
> > would have been *luqu- or *luc-.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Marius Iacomi
>
> But why would the Rmoans borrow a word for something
> that's so
> important in their ethnogenesis myth?
>
> Torsten

*****GK: Possibly because this myth was concocted long
after the actual borrowing of the word into the
language? It's been aeons since I've studied Roman
history. What's the current scholarly consensus (if
any) on the date of the myth's emergence?*****

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