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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
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> And how about Germanic folk (<*folkam)? What its origin? It would
> point to a PIE *plg(^)om or...*folkam<folkkam < *plg(^)/k(^)nom...
> PIE? pre-Germanic?
Cf. ON folk "people, army, detachment", claimed to be loan in OSl plUkU,
Russian polk "division of an army", Lith. pulkas "crowd"
Vennemann (Germania Semitica, in Europa Vasconica - Europa Semitica)
compares with the many Semitic stems of the triconsonantal form plC
all meaning approximately "divide, split" (Arabic falah.a- "to plough"
-> fellaheen "farmers"), particularly plgh "Abteilung, Gau (als
Abteilung eines Stammes); ...", cf also plk "Kreis, Bezirk; ..." Cf.
also Engl. flock, ON flockr, Da. flok, Sw. flock.
Torsten