Italian 'tedesco' is actually a very good example. Thanks Karl. Italian
refers to Germany as germania and germanico and germanici would be the
expected way to speak about the Germans. But, as you note, we get this
irregular 'tedesco' form. I don't if this is true but I was taught that
'tedesco' in some old Italian dialect meant something like 'friend' or
'comrade' and the neighbouring Germans were considered allies and given this
nickname that stuck.
James Christian
On 15 June 2010 18:16, K Randolph<kwrandolph AT gmail.com> wrote:
Jim:_______________________________________________
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:53 AM,<JimStinehart AT aol.com> wrote:
Yitzhak Sapir:that
You just made my point. Outside of the Bible, there’s n-o-t-h-i-n-g in
the secular history of the ancient world that documents use of the word
Kasdim, or anything similar to Kasdim, to refer to the Kaldu/Chaldeans.
That’s
my point exactly. If people learn nothing else from this thread, this
thread
will have done invaluable service.
Isn’t it a bit scary that scholars consistently “forget” to mention that
there is no inscription from the ancient world [outside of the Bible]
refers to the Chaldeans as Kasdim?In Italian they refer to a people known as “Tedesco” which is mentioned by
no other language or country. Isn’t it scary that no other language or
people knows about this people? There is n-o-t-h-i-n-g in other Romance
languages (French, Spanish, Romanian, etc.) that even remotely resembles
this name.
Now wouldn’t it be a great service to show how the Scandinavians learned
their word “Tysk” from the Italians?
To the best of my knowledge, no scholar has ever attempted a serious
comparison of Tedesco with Tysk as mentioned here. Isn’t that a bit scary?
If anyone mentioned the theory as proposed in the above three paragraphs,
he
would be the laughing stock of the scholarly world, especially were he to
word it in the terms used above. At least in this example, the
Scandinavians
and Italians refer to the same people.
Now we come to your theory…
3. To the best of my knowledge, no scholar has ever attempted a seriouson
comparison of K$DYM at Genesis 11: 28, 31 to Karaduniash [as I set forth
this thread]. Isn’t that a bit scary?
Jim Stinehart
Evanston, Illinois
Karl W. Randolph.
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