Re: Vacillate

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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 3:06 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Vacillate


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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@...>
> wrote:
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>> > cf. Germ. wackeln "totter", Eng. waggle.
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>> > 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?
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>> I just noted Fr. bancal "bandy-legged, wobbly". 'Venetic' *w- > b-.
>> Interesting. Cf. Germ. wankeln = wackeln.
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>> Torsten
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>> A derivative of banc "bench"
>> because they are seldom stable.
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> Not very convincing.
> Can you cite an authority on that or did you just make it up?
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> Torsten
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