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Re: [b-hebrew] RE: Assyrians chase the Israelites up the Danube??

From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
To: "Bucher, Christina " <bucherca AT etown.edu>
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] RE: Assyrians chase the Israelites up the Danube??
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:27:18 +0000

On 21/02/2005 17:00, Bucher, Christina wrote:

...
It's significant that when "Daitya" is actually pronounced it comes out
sounding like "Daitcha," from which one could imagine "Deutsch" being
fairly easily derived.

This last point is superfluous. The -sch part of "deutsch" is simply a contraction of the Germanic ethnic suffix -isch, cf. English -ish. The root of the word is deut- or teut- as in Teutonic.

But I am not offering support to Chris' questionable hypothesis. It seems highly improbable that this ethnonym would have been preserved in two places so far apart but nowhere in between.

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[b-hebrew] RE: Assyrians chase the Israelites up the Danube??, Bucher, Christina , 02/21/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] RE: Assyrians chase the Israelites up the Danube??, Peter Kirk, 02/21/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] RE: Assyrians chase the Israelites up the Danube??, C. Stirling Bartholomew, 02/21/2005