From: Jonathan Morris
Message: 60142
Date: 2008-09-19
| When I said V. Latin, my point wasn't that it was a native Italic word, but that it was probably a borrowing from one of the Celtic languages - most likely spoken in N Italy - into Vulgar Latin, hence you wouldn't expect it to match insular Celtic exactly. Otherwise you have a word spreading very rapidly from Italian into French/Portuguese, etc. at the start of the 14th century with multiple meanings. It looks much more likely that briga was there all along and that 'brigade' was a Mediaeval borrowing of a specific military term. Meyer-Lübke seems to derive it from Germanic break and notes Gothic brikan, Lombard brehhan. It might be, but if it's a Lombard borrowing into Italian, how do you explain the 'g', you'd expect breccia - indeed, you get breccia/brecha in Port. So even if you opt for a Germanic explanation, the Middle Ages looks too late to me. --- Em qui, 18/9/08, Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...> escreveu: De: Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...> |