Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia

--- On Sun, 11/9/08, Brian M. Scott <BMScott@...> wrote:

> From: Brian M. Scott <BMScott@...>
> Subject: Re[2]: [tied] Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia
> To: "Rick McCallister" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Sunday, November 9, 2008, 9:18 PM
> At 4:20:37 PM on Sunday, November 9, 2008, Rick McCallister
> wrote:
>
> > --- On Sun, 11/9/08, Brian M. Scott
> <BMScott@...>
> > wrote:
>
> >> Or early (but post-Grimm) borrowings from Latin
> (probably
> >> *punda 'pound', *katilaz 'kettle',
> the *kaup- family), or
> >> the pre-Grimm borrowing *paido: 'cloak'
> (cf. Gk. <baíte:>
> >> 'a shepherd's cloak') from some
> eastern language.
>
> > Would this be the same word as Spanish bata
> "robe,
> > nightgown" via Arabic? Is it originally from
> Persian?
>
> No idea.
>
> Brian

Spanish and Arabic words for clothing
tend to be cognates from vulgar Latin
and many have sketchy origins:
e.g.
zapato/s.abat;
fustán/fustan
camisa/qamis (< Celtic supposedly)
calzón/kalsun (sp? --I don't know if qaf and s.ad or not)
etc.