Re: [tied] Re: *gwistis

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From: "m_iacomi" <m_iacomi@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:28 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: *gwistis


> > [...]
> > I must confess I don't understand the point about
'loanwords from
> > Latin' in Vulgar Latin.
>
> It's my fault, I should have made the point clear: I was
speaking
> about loanwords from Latin in other languages, egg. Albanian
or
> Germanic dialects. Early Latin loanwords exhibit ancient
phonetic
> characteristics, as expected. Belonging to a different
system,
> late Latin innovations could not reach these words. The main
point
> being somewhere else, I thought it would be better to skip
this
> collateral issue.

[Moeller] early latine= ? which time, which period of time?

>
> > Incidentally, what's original about the 'g' in Giovanni?
>
> Latin <J> (<I>) from Jo(h)annis, maybe with some Greek
influence.
> Normal phonetical evolution as in iocum > gi(u)oco, iuvenem
>
> giovane, etc.
>
> Regards,
> Marius Iacomi

[Moeller]
hmmm.. It seems....hmm... I tought giovano/a= lat. juvenis=
young.. Can you verify it Marius?