Re: [tied] Re: Slavic "lada"

From: Marco Moretti To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 8:25 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Slavic "lada"

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "petusek" petusek wrote:
>> Could anybody help me with OCz lada "virgin, girl", S-Cr
>>lada "wife", R/Ukr lada "wife, mistress", please? Any cognates? Any
>>etymological attempts?
>>
>> If it is a loan, does it have something to do with Gr. Léda, Letó,
>>Lat. La:to:na??? Thanks for any help or advice.
>>
>> Petusek
>
>As for me, it's a quite ancient Caucasian loanword. There are similar
>forms in Anatolian: /lada/ "mistress". In Latin there is a
>gloss /lada/ "woman", I think it's directly from Etruscan /*latha/.
>
>Marco
>

Thank you, Marco. If it is an ancient Caucasian loanword, could you be more
specific, please, and give me some examples, if possible? (By Caucasian, did
you mean some of the NE, NW Cauc. languages, their ancient relatives, or
Kartv.?)

Does anybody know the way it got to Czech, when, where, etc.?

So, Etruscans adopted the word from a Caucasian source, too, right?

Something like this: a Caucasian source > Etruscan (Tyrrhenian?) > (Latin?
Greek? >) various IE languages ???

What about Etr. lasa? Even an older loan?