Re: Academic/scientific journals in Esperanto?

From: Miguel Carrasquer (mcv_at_wxs.nl)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:44:13 GMT

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:20:02 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>Manuel M Campagna wrote:
>>
>> Lee Sau Dan (danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de) writes:
>> >>>>>> "Manuel" == Manuel M Campagna <fa192@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> writes:
>> > >> The pl. Büros is from French. High German doesn't have an
>> > >> s-plural natively (in Old High German the o-stem nom.pl. in
>> > >> *-as was replaced by the acc.pl. in -a [> -e]), but s-plurals
>> > >> are not uncommon in the Low German/Dutch area, which in this
>> > >> respect is more like English. Omas and Opas are probably Low
>> > >> German forms (cf. Dutch oma's, opa's).
>> > Manuel> "Auto, Autos".
>> > But "Auto" is not a native German word. It comes from Greek (?).
>>
>> As a prefix it comes from Greek (meaning "self-"). As a free word meaning
>> "car", it comes from French, being short for "automobile".
>
>Unless, of course, the person who said that Benz himself invented the
>word was correct.

I was quoting Kluge's etymological dictionary of German
(17th. ed., 1957). I can't guarantee that it isn't biased.

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mcv@wxs.nl

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