From: Torsten
Message: 69316
Date: 2012-04-13
>So this d/l/zero (aceo:/acie:s etc) alternation is Latin/Sabine.
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Torsten <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Peter Whale <prw.peter.whale@> wrote:
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> > > The variations you speak off are known in other words as well,
> > > and they may simply be dialectal or other variants. It is wrong
> > > to say that they compel us to see a foreign origin. Alternation
> > > of d and l, for example, is seen in the "tear" word, dakruma /
> > > lacruma, the "smell" word olor/odor, and a few others. Within a
> > > Latin context, the patterns fits dialect borrowing.
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> > Which Latin dialects did you have in mind
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> Sabine, for example. Yes, evidence is slight, but the pattern is
> right for dialect variation.
> >So this d/l alternation is Greek (we think, since that /d/ isn't documented in Western Greek?).
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> > > The same is true of Odysseus / Ulysses.
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> > Odysseus being Greek and 'Ulysses' Latin, dialects of which
> > language did you have in mind?
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> Greek. Latin picked up the name from a western Dialect. We know it
> in the form it has in eastern dialects, especially Attic-Ionic.