[tied] Re: "Niggers of India"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3"
<alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:

>
> > > 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.
>

That club-swinging mimosa gLeN seems to have withdrawn from public
linguistics (and developed healthier interests?). It is probably a
good thing; it would have pained him greatly to watch the depths the
subjects of discussions of all the good folks at cybalist have
decended to. Oh horror!

;-)


Torsten