gs001ns@... wrote:
> alex_lycos wrote:
>
>> BTW is there in Romance's men's name a survivor of
>> the name "Eneas" beside Romanian?
>
> I suppose you mean Ene (and Enea [ea being a
> diphtong]). If so, then Ene is just another
> variant of Ioan/Ion = John. Under a certain
> (neo-)Greek influence. (Check it out in any
> Romanian onomastics dictionary.)
>
> George
Yes, you are right. This is what I meant. "Ene" and "Enea".
As for looking in dictionaries I am a bit suspicious. If there is a
neo-Greek influence, then the name should exist / existed in Greek too.
"Ion" has the variant "Ioan" and "Onu" with diminutival "IonuT". In
other languages John, Johanes & Co. It seems that every derivatives kept
this "jo-/o-" there. If you mean that "Ene" is a variant of "Ion", I
don't know how to see it. Bad mouths will say there are 2 posibilities:
1) vocatvie of Ion = Ioaneeeeeeeee > oane > ene (lol). In fact we have
"Onu" as an another derivativ of Ion
2) In fact it is not related with Ion but with "nene". So the "n" is a
nasal , it is not well heard, Nene > Ene:-)
Of course I am just joking. I don't belive that Ene has something with
Ion to do, even under God's influence, not just the neo-Greek one.
Es sei denn, jemand ist in der Lage zu zeigen, wo der Hammer hängt. BTW,
Enea George ( I said "n" can be mute:-)P), how would you translate into
english the german sentence here?:-))
Alex