From: george knysh
Message: 20958
Date: 2003-04-12
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh******GK: An excellent suggestion. I'm currently on
> <gknysh@...> wrote:
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> > *****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
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