Re: Germanic folk

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:

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

The most telling Etruscan feature is the word populus, which appears
as an Etruscan deity, Fufluns. Populus seems to mean the people
assembled in a military body, rather than the general populace,
however. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_civilization)

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> Konushevci
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