Daniel Baum wrote:
> It's not April 1 today is it?
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> Not bad though, you actually had me reading your spoof until I got
to:
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> DU-MI-NE-QA “Sunday”, noun, acc., fem, sg, Latin dominicus, Italian
> domenica, French dimanche, Romanian dumineca
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> Strange how I never realised that the Minoans were Christians!
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> Daniel
Interesting the interpretation of Latin Domenica; we know about
"dominicus" meaning "of the lord" but I don't know any "domenica" with
the meaning "of a feminine lord". If the day was the day of the sun,
then there is no relation to find in Latin, but it appears as a
loanword in Latin from pagans. It is anyway very singular the word
among the other days with this -for Latin- ominous suffix "-ica".
Regarding the suffix "-ika", the Rom. suffix is considered to be a
loan from.. Slavic. Personally I guess the word "domenica" is not
related to any christian therminology but about this, later. BTW,
which is the actual interpretation regarding the Latin "domenica"?
Further, there are some things which appears to be true. The Latin
"-us" in nominative appears as being just a copy after Greek "-os"
since in the inscriptions found in Italy , inscriptions in other
languages as Latin ( oscan, umbria, volscian, etc) there is almost no
or very seldon nominative in "-os".
Alex