Re: Fw: [tied] Latin versus *Proto-Romance

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

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> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 1:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Latin versus *Proto-Romance
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> > 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?

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> 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.

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> Piotr

Which means, I suppose, it would work if North Germanic society was
two- (or several-) tiered, which is also what the story says?

Torsten