Re: [tied] some terms for George ( it was Re: Historical ...)

15-06-03 15:35, george knysh wrote:

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:

The word <church> goes backto early (apparently
pre-Christian!) West Germanic *kirik(j)o:n(ultimately
a loan from Greek)

*****GK: Could this be from the expression "ecclesia
kyriakos", which stems from the Council of Nicaea [325
AD] (as mentioned by Marius)?*****

<oikia kuriake:> or perhaps <ekklesia kuriake:>, or anything feminine. The Koine pronunciation was [kiriaki], hence Germanic *kirik(i)- (feminine, with added "weak" inflections). Gothic may have served as an intermediary between Greek and West Germanic in this case, although the word is not attested in Wulfila's language.

Piotr