Re: Germanic folk

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2007-06-07 22:37, Rick McCallister wrote:
>
> > Any possible link to Latin populus? i.e. if it is a
> > reduplication < *pol-, *pul- or even *pOlp-?
>
> I don't think so. Lat. populus (arch. poplus) looks like a Sabellic

loan

> (cf. Umbr. poplos), so it may well be PIE *kWekWlos, which would

explain

> the /o/ (Sabellic *kWe- > *kWo- > po-). The meaning would have evolved
> from 'wheel, circle' to 'something that surrounds, a ring of people'

-->

> 'assembly, multitude', as in Greek, where <kuklos> may mean such things.
>
> Piotr

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But, dominant view is that Latin populus is of Etruscan origin. (AHD,
4th edition.)

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