Re: [tied] Lupus

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "m_iacomi <m_iacomi@...>"
<m_iacomi@...> wrote:

> In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, João Simões Lopes Filho wrote:
> > There are roots *wLkWos, *wLp- *l(o)up-. Perhaps corrupted forms
> > of the same, or maybe different roots mingled later.
> > The usual explanation for Latin lupus and Greek lykos is
> > metathesis (*wLkWo- > *lukWo-), but I suspect some dialetal
> > influence.
>
> At least for Latin lupus, the most usual explanation I've seen
> is that the word was borrowed in Latin from some Oscan-Umbrian
> dialect (in which concerns the /p/). The expected form in Latin
> would have been *luqu- or *luc-.
>
> Regards,
> Marius Iacomi

But why would the Rmoans borrow a word for something that's so
important in their ethnogenesis myth?

Torsten