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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
> *****GK: This may very well be the case, but what I find interesting
here is Jerome's erroneous etymology. I doubt that he was unaware of
the Greek word <tukHe:> Why did he choose "silence" rather than "luck"
to explain Tychicus? It does seem a bit farfetched (though not
absolutely impossible) to look for a Slavic connection (but we really
know very little about St Tychicus, and his Ephesian birth is a later
assumption on the basis of the available NT material). What other
language, in the late 4th or early 5th century, might have suggested
"silence" to Jerome?*****
I'd begin by verifying the authenticity of Jerome's etymology if I had
his commentaries to hand. The immediate source of the quotation seems
to be one of the sites propagating "a new look on Slovene history"
with an autochthonist agenda ("Venetic = Proto-Slovene"). Do you
happen to have access to Jerome's original text? It would be
interesting to see what he really wrote, and in what context.
Piotr