Re: Vacillate

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

>
>
> > cf. Germ. wackeln "totter", Eng. waggle.
> >
> > The standard approach is to see the Lat. word as inherited, but
> > given the late attestation, could it be a Germanic loan (with 2LV
> > to boot)? Gladiator talk become fashionable? Or something picked
> > up from the slaves?
>
> I just noted Fr. bancal "bandy-legged, wobbly". 'Venetic' *w- > b-.
> Interesting. Cf. Germ. wankeln = wackeln.
>
> Torsten
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> ==========
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> A derivative of banc "bench"
> because they are seldom stable.
>

Not very convincing.
Can you cite an authority on that or did you just make it up?


Torsten