Re: [tied] Re: Late

Marco Moretti wrote:

>
> When Marcus Aurelius was Emperor, a terrible plague destroyed almost
> half the population of Insubria and of other areas in Northern Italy.
> The Emperor established "laeti" from Marcomanni and Sarmati in order
> to repeople deserted districts and to prevent agriculture abandon.
> But the word is more ancient and is listed in vocabularies of
> Classical Latin that don't list Medieval neologisms.
> The Etruscan item is thought by some to be a loanword from Greek
> (glossed) /le:itos/ "civic servant".
> About a Celtic origin, I never found this *ple:t-.
>
> Regards
>
> Marco

Sound interesting .In Rom. "lãieT" means "person with long and uncombed
hair". This word is a negative denomination too for nomands gypsies. DEX
gives it as derived from "laie". The word "laie" should mean "group of
nomads gypsies", "a group of noisy people". Etym. compare with Polish
"laja"= "pack of dogs"
Should mean in fact "varriegated people"? I thik at the word "laie"=
black with white ( so, varriegated). The word should be in Albanian as
well , the word "laja", but I don't know its meaning.

Sortly said, the people called for working should have be seen as a mob
of varriegated people?



Alex