Re: Wanak

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stevelong333" <stevelong333@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, patrick cuadrado
> <dicoceltique@> wrote:
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> <<Hello tgpedersen
> For you , does any chance to connect Greek Anax = King with
> Celtic Anag-/Anak-s/Anax = to protect cf Scot Anacail = to defend
> and Irish Anacol = Protection>>
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"
> <tgpedersen@> replied:
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> <<The Greek is from wanak-, so no.>>
>
> I'm afraid I don't understand.
>
> If there is indeed a Celtic "anax", to protect, then why would the
> Gr Wanak- make a difference? If I understand the question, it is
> whether there may be a connection, which would include at
> mininum the possibility of a loan word.

If you read it that way, then yes. I should be the last one to dis a
loanword proposal, but this one involves only two language groups and
a phonetic change (loss of w-) which I am not aware of in other groups
of loanwords.


Torsten