Re: Res: [tied] Romance brother

Excuse me for barging in like this, but have you considered the name
Hermann in this? I know it´s a long shot but the name Hermann and the
word germanus have similar properties and since the romans thought of
the germanic tribes as being what the name Hermann means, namely army
of men, it´s not that far away as a theory.

Carl Hult

2007-05-28 kl. 10.28 skrev tgpedersen:

> >
> > Is g- > h- regular in Lat. germanus > Sp. hermano, and if not, what
> > happened? And how about Pt. irmão (e > i)?
> >
> >
> > It's not regular. Latin geminus > Portuguese ge^meo; Latin
> generalis >
> > Portuguese geral. The anomalous shift could be explained as
> influenced
> > by phrasal lenition: teu germanu > *teu yermanu
>
> Given the etymogies Piotr mentioned, are your sure your etymologies
> are not learned loans from Latin?
>
> Torsten
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