Re: [tied] Re: Latin [homo] from PIE *dhgho_mon- = Earth dweller?

From: alex
Message: 33884
Date: 2004-08-27

Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
>>
>> what about Bulgarian "huma"(argile)? I suppose this is a loan but
> from which
>> language?
>>
>> AlexM
> ************
> Not only in Bulgarian, but also in Albanian it was very present. Is
> it a loan from Lat. <humens, -tis> 'wet, moisten' I am not sure, for
> it was used as <soap>, <shampoo> during the washing of the body.
>
> Konushevci


the pronounciation is with "h" and the meaning should be argile. At least
that is the pronounciation in Rom. and that is the meaning. The word is seen
not as a directly loan from Latin but as a loan from Bulgarian in Rom; of
course the pronounciation with "h" is interesting here specialy that
regionaly the word is spooken "gum�" but the meaning remains the
same -argile- .

Alex