--- Piotr Gasiorowski <
piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:
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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], henceGermanic
*kirik(i)- (feminine, with added "weak" inflections).
Gothicmay have served as an intermediary between Greek
and West Germanic inthis case, although the word is
not attested in Wulfila's language.
Piotr
*****GK: One can see Nicaea's expression "ecclesia
kiriaki" entering Wulfila's translation as simply
"ecclesia" (traditional gospel word) while being
"shortened" in the common parlance.*****
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