> > George, until "niger"'s origin remain 'doubtful', your
> > cannot say that its original meaning was 'black' or any
> > other dark color;
>
> Original? Read it again: he said that its *Latin* meaning
> was 'black'.
>
> Brian
>
Brian, I know this: in Romanian (that is today form of the Balkan
Latin) the current form of this word is 'negru' eng. 'black'...
But, but...in Romanian we have viezure 'badger'...and nobody knows
today that this means "a kind of (small) stealer" (see Albanian
vjedh 'to steal')
Also we have barza 'stork' but nobody knows today that this
means 'the white (bird)' (see Albanian i bardhë 'white')...
So we need to find out the etymology of the Latin word...this is
what I wanted to say.
Marius