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Lundvithr
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Username: Lundvithr
Post Number: 2
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 08:10 pm: |   
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Could the Irish word dun or dún be construed, in any possible way, to mean something to the effect of the word judge?
I know the direct translation renders "fort, hill, etc", but I'm asking if by any stretch of the imagination could the word dun/dún have a logical connection to the English word 'judge'. |
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Domhnaillín_breac_na_dtruslóg
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Username: Domhnaillín_breac_na_dtruslóg
Post Number: 622
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 09:11 pm: |
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Absolutely not. Judge derives from Latin judex, literally "law" (jus) "speaker" (dic-, root of dicere "say, speak"; PIE *deik-). There's no plausible way to relate this to Proto-Celtic *dūno- (PIE root unknown), the source of Irish dún "fort" and Welsh dinas "city". |
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Lundvithr
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Username: Lundvithr
Post Number: 3
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Friday, June 26, 2009 - 12:07 am: |
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Thank you, you've helped me win argument with someone whom I now believe to be insane. |
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Taidhgín
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Username: Taidhgín
Post Number: 373
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Friday, June 26, 2009 - 01:49 am: |
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Cad atá i gceist leis an acronym PIE? |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 8483
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Friday, June 26, 2009 - 03:15 am: |
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Proto Indo European
An teanga a chreideann lucht léinn is bunús le teangacha Ind Eorpacha. |
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Riain_liam_o_laithimh
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Username: Riain_liam_o_laithimh
Post Number: 28
Registered: 12-2008
| | Posted on Friday, June 26, 2009 - 07:15 am: |
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'Cad atá i gceist leis...'
Ni thuigim an frasa seo. |
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Suaimhneas
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Username: Suaimhneas
Post Number: 488
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Friday, June 26, 2009 - 07:48 am: |
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Literally : "what is in question with"
meaning, in this context, - what is the meaning of.. |
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