Re: Deutcher = Teacher

On Jan 13, 9:54 pm, "Dušan Vukotić" <dusan.vuko...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 14, 1:52 am, Harlan Messinger
[...]
A rhetorical question doesn't disprove a theory.
Only a complete idiot could believe into such a stupidity!
Only a complete idiot would think that by asking a rhetorical question
he has disproved a theory.

[...]
Nemac does not mean 'mute' in any of Slavic languages and we could
also say with the same "certainty" that Nemac came from the Serbian
'nemoć' (impotence) or the verb 'nemati' (be without) or
'neman' (monster).

Good.. just as I guessed when I said;
"Getting back to the Baltic root we find 'ne + maćigi' as the most
original root.
It doesn't mean 'mute' in Baltic.. it means 'uneducated' /'incapable'.
I don't know if a Slavic equivalent exists.. but wouldn't be surprised
if one did."

Your 'nemoć' (impotence) looks to be suitable.

[...]
Once again, Nemac is of the same origin as the Serbian name Nemanja
(Stefan Nemanja) - kneg/knez, king/knight, Njegos/Negus.

I don't think so. Imo, a different root is involved.
....
Looking back at what Kriha wrote...

"I can't type Cyrillics easily, I give you Czech versions to show you
the difference between "mute" and "German". It was probably
the Western Slavs who were first Slavs to come into contact
with Celts and later Germans. BTW, interesting is, that it was
probably the Celts who were called "non-speaking" first, and
only later the Germans.

"Německý jazyk" = German language
"Němec" = German (person)
"Němčina" = German (language)

"Jazyk němých" = Language of the mute
"Němý" = the mute
"Němota" = the muteness "

Czech 'nemota' would make sense to a Baltic speaker;
'Ne muta'; is literally 'no mouth' (voice).

Btw. Standard etymology gives eg.:
"mouth
O.E. muþ, from P.Gmc. *munthaz (cf. O.Fris. muth, O.N. munnr, M.Du.
mont, Ger. Mund, Goth. munþs "mouth"), with characteristic loss of
nasal consonant in O.E. (cf. tooth, goose, etc.), from PIE *mnto-s
(cf. L. mentum "chin"). In the sense of "outfall of a river" it is
attested from c.1122; as the opening of anything with capacity (a
bottle, cave, etc.) it is recorded from c.1200. The verb is c.1300,
"to speak," from the noun. Mouthful "a lot to say" is from 1748. "

..However Latvian 'muta' looks much more straightforward, doesn't it?



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