Re: Latin dunc

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> if I have to believe my dictionary, the "dunc" shouldn't be a form
> resulted from *dum-que and it is not a syncoped form from "do:nec"

but

> it is a form which has been builded as tum - >tunc, thus dunc is

from

> "dum".
>
> Rom. has "deci" for the meaning of "therefore", (equivalent of

French

> "donc", Italian "dunque") with a strange "e" there, thus the word

is

> considered to be a new building from "de"(begining with) +"aci"

(here),

> but not from Latin "dunc". I don't pay too much to this explanation
> because phoneticaly it doesnt matches. "de" has the alternation

"dã"
and

> de+aci = dã aci > da-ci(absorbtion of "ã" into next "a" dã

aci > d'aci).

>
> Questions:
>
> -has Latin "dum" a cognate in Greek "de" here?
> -when has been "tunc" replaced by "dunc" in Latin?
> -is there in Romance any romance which still use a derivative
> of "tunc" instead of a derivative of "dunc"?
>
> Alex

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I don't know "dunc", and can't find it in the online L&S Latin
dictionary, nor in my smaller Cassell's. Nunc, tunc, but not dunc.
Alex, what's your source?
Dan Milton