Re: [tied] Re: Germanic folk

Makes sense, and it is a reduplication

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> On 2007-06-07 22:37, Rick McCallister wrote:
>
> > Any possible link to Latin populus? i.e. if it is
> a
> > reduplication < *pol-, *pul- or even *pOlp-?
>
> I don't think so. Lat. populus (arch. poplus) looks
> like a Sabellic loan
> (cf. Umbr. poplos), so it may well be PIE *kWekWlos,
> which would explain
> the /o/ (Sabellic *kWe- > *kWo- > po-). The meaning
> would have evolved
> from 'wheel, circle' to 'something that surrounds, a
> ring of people' -->
> 'assembly, multitude', as in Greek, where <kuklos>
> may mean such things.
>
> Piotr
>
>
>

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