From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 27150
Date: 2003-11-14
>Abdullah Konushevci wrote:Nonsense. Lume < Lat. lu:men "light" < *leuksmen. Semantics according to
>>
>> What I like to stress here is the fact that also another PIE root
>> *leudh- has similar meaning "to grow up, people, free". From this
>> root we have Alb. <lenj> 'to be born'<*leudh-n- and <polem> 'people'
>> < *leudh-m-.
>
>but there is Serbian "liudi" too which means "people", doesn't it?
>the Rom. "lume" means "people" but "world" too and if there is a
>suffixed form with "-me" of leud(me) that won't be too far.
>> If we compare Lat. nascor 'to be born' we may see that from the sameAbdullah already gave the origin of na-rod: roditi "to beget".
>> root was derived also <natio> 'people' and Slavic <roditi> 'to beget'
>> and <narod> 'people'.
>
>Mmm.. I should like to hear more about Slavic "narod" here if this
>related to Latin nascor and Rom. "nãscoci". I wonder that happened with
>this "sc" in slavic if something as *nasko > Slv. narod