Re: Oedipus

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

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> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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> http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/KuhnText/list.html
> Cf also, for Jysk, the list in
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/30336
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/58952
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> It's worth reading that English path is supposed to be an Iranian

loanword

> !?
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> http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE394.html
> path, from Old English pæth, path; b. pad2; footpad, from Middle
> Dutch pad, way, path. Both a and b from Germanic *patha-, way,
> path, probably borrowed (? via Scythian) from Iranian *path-.
> (Pokorny pent- 808.)
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> How is this possible if Germanic originates in Northern Europe and
> Jastorf ?

It's limited to Western Germanic.
That's an old chestnut. There have been several attempts to find more
appropriate etymologies. Look in the archives. One might also blame it
on the Alans, whose presence in Europe is mainstream.

Another one is Engl. gate, besides Gmc. 'wrong' (with g-) cognates in
Baltic, Finnic and Iranian.

BTW one I just thought of: the presence of plu:G- "plough" in Germanic
and Slavic supposedly loaned from Rhaetic could support a story of
speakers of ancestors of both Germanic and Slavic eg. in Noricum,
somewhere near Negau.


Torsten


Torsten