Re: family (it was a question...)

alex wrote:

>Richard Wordingham wrote:
>
>>Classical Latin barely has a word for such a concept. I look
>>up 'family' in my pocket dictionary, and I find _domus_ and
>>_gens_. _gens_ is the wider family, formally everyone with
>>the same second name. The primary meanings of _domus_ are
>>'house' and 'home'.
>
>thw notion which exprime a wider family in Rom. is "neam"
>which has a controversal etymology. Some scholars see it as
>comming from a Hungarian word "nyem" with I don't know what
>a meaning and I very doubt about such a Hungarian influence.

Without that ypsilon: <nem> [næm]. <nemzet> ['næmzœt]
"nation," <nemes> ['næmæS] "noble, aristocrat."

Most of the <nem>-derivations are listed here (<nem> means at
the same time: "no, not; nay, nope" - which doesn't belong to
the "breed, gens, nation; sex" word family):

http://nemzet.notlong.com

George