From: alex
Message: 27224
Date: 2003-11-15
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 09:09:14 +0100, alex <alxmoeller@...>Grrrr... you are right. The paragraph I mentioned in Rosetti is
> wrote:
>
>> Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>>> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 23:38:08 +0100, alex <alxmoeller@...>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Something strange here. Not only Alb. but even Greek seems to have
>>>> developed this "y" in "gi". At least for rom. "jura" (< *giura) to
>>>> swear, the shcolars see it as a loan from Greek.
>>>
>>> Which shcolars? Latin iu:ra:re < iouesa:- (from the same root as
>>> ju:s "law") is not a loan from Greek.
>>>
>>
>> Rosetti shows in its ILR )1968,pag. 113)the explanation of A.
>> Philippide in "Altgrichische Elemente im Rumänischen" where Rom.
>> "jura" must be explained trough Greek "giuros" (
>> gama-upsilon-tho-omikron-xi).
>
> guros (gamma-upsilon-rho-omikron-sigma). Class.Greek /gy~ros/, Mod.
> Greek /jíros/. Borrowed into Latin, verbal form gyrare > Spa. girar
> "to turn", etc. Nothing to do with iu:ra:re "to swear".
>
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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