Re: [tied] Re: Germanic folk

I've seen that theory as well. But it could still be
Umbrian, etc. and have arrived into Latin via
Etruscan.


--- Abdullah Konushevci <akonushevci@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah
> Konushevci"
> <akonushevci@...> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, 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
> > ************
> > But, dominant view is that Latin populus is of
> Etruscan origin. (AHD,
> > 4th edition.)
> The most telling Etruscan feature is the word
> populus, which appears
> as an Etruscan deity, Fufluns. Populus seems to mean
> the people
> assembled in a military body, rather than the
> general populace,
> however.
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_civilization)
> >
> > Konushevci
> >
>
>
>

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