From: alex
Message: 28177
Date: 2003-12-08
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" wrote:I am not ashamed of what me, Alex Moeller wrote on May 2002:
>
>>> You're the native speaker, so you should know which one is *the*
>>> Swadesh list.
>>>
>>> I used:
>>>
>>> I eu
> [...]
>>> big mare L?
> [...]
>>> small mic L?
> [...]
>>> ashes cenus,ã ( scrum), cenuSã has a vey special mening)
>
> CenuSã basically means `ashes`. Out of that it can mean `cinders`.
> For "ashes", most used nowdays is "cenuSã", "scrum" mostly on
> rom-smokers list. :-)
>
>> I said I am afraid by Ultra-Romanists and Ultra-Dacists. The
>> words where I put an -L? are in my eyes at the very first view
>> susceptible of not being of Latin origin with all their presence
>> in Romance.
>
> The only two I left there deserve further discussion (actually
> "mare" was recently discussed so there is nothing to add; for
> "mic" it is debatable if it's directly from Greek or from the
> unattested VL "*miccus" to be related with Sicilian "nicu" `id.`).
> The other "L" signs belong to the same guy having written on
> Wed May 1, 2002: <dpdv al lingvisticii sunt un absolut null, ceea
> ce am citit fiind nimic altceva decat insuficient>, now making
> "value judgements" on etymologies without necessary background;
> of course, for these ohter words there is no need of any comment.
>
> Marius Iacomi