Alex wrote:
>I never heard, in any languages a
>such extension of the ethnical name .
As though you knew them all. ;-) The usage by a wife in
the sense of "my man, my hubbie, my guy" must be very
recent. I doubt we can find this connotation in texts older
than 200-250 years.
>Thus, it seems the name for ethnos was derived from that
>of christian .
No "thus" here. "My man, my husband, my guy" has nothing
to do with Christian. But it rather has to do in the former
principality south of Carpathians with unfree peasants, i.e.
serfs, who were called there "rumân, plural rumâni." So,
this social stratum was practically referred to by the very
ethnonym -- and by their ethno-kinship that stood above
them socially.
>(they called themselves Rumâni because they could not
>forget the city of Rome)
Not the city of Rome, but Rome as Romania a.k.a. Imperium
Roman(or)um and the quality of civis romani (Roman citizens).
BTW, one of the most recent theory I'm aware of is by some
Roma (Gypsies), who assert that their ethnonym is also
because of their ancestors having lived within the confines
of the Eastern Roman Empire. ;-)
>For avoiding some other comentars
comments, remarks
George
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