From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 18440
Date: 2003-02-05
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Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Latin versus *Proto-Romance
> I recall you proposed to divide early North Germanic society into earls and churls once; might in that case the latter not be derived from a similar source (obviously they are not PIE cognates) as *korljI?
It would work formally, but not semantically. The churls were men without rank, the lower order of freemen. Actually, Charlemagne's name seems to contain *karla-, but a more direct connection is unlikely.
Piotr