Re: [tied] Re: Cyriaca

The Latin "missing link" is gratuitous. Who says the Germani got everything from Rome? There was sufficient early contact between various Germanic groups and the Byzantine half of the Empire for the Greek kuriake: (pronounced [kyriaki] in late Ancient Greek) to have been borrowed directly. Actually, such an early cultural loan, adopted before the Christianisation of the NW Germani, explains why those languages failed to borrow the standard Latin term "ecclesia" at a later date.

Piotr

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Subject: [tied] Re: Cyriaca

What about the missing link, the Latin form cyriaca? Is this theory now obsolete? It is certainly not very satisfactory to derive the Germanic word from a Latin word that is not known to have existed but whose existence is deduced from the fact that there is a Germanic word supposedly derived from it — a perfect example of circular reasoning! Håvard

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