Re: [tied] Re: Germanic folk

Any possible link to Latin populus? i.e. if it is a
reduplication < *pol-, *pul- or even *pOlp-?


--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes"
> <josimo70@> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> And Proto-Germ. *fulGj- "follow"?
> (cf. ON fylki, OE gefylce "flock of warriors";
> ON fylgja "guardian spirit", ON fylking "battle
> order")
>
>
> Torsten
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