The story of Caesar revisited

• Authors: Dariusz R. Piwowarczyk
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article investigates the story of the origin and the expanse of the term caesar in the Indo-European languages. A hypothesis on the non-existence of the diphthongs /ai/ and /au/ in Gothic is used to show that the borrowing into Gothic occurred from Greek and renders the Greek spelling practice. Due to additional facts concerning the monophthongization of the diphthong /ai/ in Greek and Latin it is hypothesized that they might already represent not a diphthong but a single vowel. Counter-evidence is also stated, as the precise way of the borrowing still remains unknown.

Keywords

EN

etymology; Latin; Indo-European; Caesar; diphthong; monophthongization; spelling; borrowing

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 105-110

Dates

online

2013-05-15

Contributors

author

Dariusz R. Piwowarczyk

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/20843836SE.13.007.0944