Re: Re[2]: [tied] the bee

From: alex_lycos
Message: 21146
Date: 2003-04-21

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "alex_lycos" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 3:57 AM
Subject: Re[2]: [tied] the bee


> At 8:12:48 PM on Friday, April 18, 2003, alex_lycos wrote:
>
>
> > From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
>
> >> Rom. albinã not only _can_, but _does_ come from
> >> <albi:na>, an adjectival derivative of <alvus> 'beehive',
> >> like <mari:nus> from <mare>. Bees live in hives, you know
>
> > Excuse me but here you are wrong. "Marin" is not inherited
> > but a reent loand
>
> He isn't wrong. He didn't say anything about <marin>. He
> simply pointed out that _in_Latin_ there are other examples
> of derivations parallel to that of <albi:na> from <alvus>
>
> Brian


Agreed:-) I seen his argumentation on the Romanian layer and the Latin
word "marinus" versus Rom. word "marin" which is a recent loan.
Piotr is right regarding the derivation within Latin languages but I am
not at all sure about the derivation within Rom. Lang.
It is too stupid to take the "beehive" from Latins and to see it as
"bee" but to have the fully other therminology regarding bees and their
life & farming from an another idiom. It doesn't mathces at all.
Alex