Re: Res: [tied] Re: Afro-Asiatic substrate (re "folk" "polk" "pulkas

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 64538
Date: 2009-08-01

On 2009-08-01 00:41, Rick McCallister wrote:

> I already asked that last week but so far everyone's ignoring my
> sugestion. I've wondered if populus is from Etruscan fuflans or vice
> versa, if it's from P-Italic, if it is a reduplicatiom, as it seems
> to be, and if it's related to folk, etc. If it is related, then the
> root is *pVl- and -k- is a suffix

Haven't we discussed it before? As for the etymology of <populus>, see:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/48909

Piotr