Originally posted by spitfire
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Instead of trying to bully me, I suggest you start learning greek.
Not just any citation, but a citation from a linguist.
And of course by doing so is denying Homer, Herodotus and as far as the greek mythology if you ask me.
My quote stands.
The assumptions on the etymology of the name "Italia" are very numerous and the corpus of the solutions proposed by historians and linguists is very wide. According to one of the more common explanations, the term Italia, from Latin: Italia, was borrowed through Greek from the Oscan Víteliú, meaning "land of young cattle" (cf. Lat vitulus "calf", Umb vitlo "calf").[29]
Source [29] J.P. Mallory and D.Q. Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture (London: Fitzroy and Dearborn, 1997), 24.
Source [29] J.P. Mallory and D.Q. Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture (London: Fitzroy and Dearborn, 1997), 24.
Originally posted by Philosopher
You still don't get it. Your analysis may be right. That is not the issue.
He is asking for a citation. If you do not have a citation, then state "I do not have a citation and I cannot independently verify the etymology of the word"
He is asking for a citation. If you do not have a citation, then state "I do not have a citation and I cannot independently verify the etymology of the word"
He knows that. He just thought he could keep getting away with being disingenuous. Perhaps he will know better next time. Perhaps not.
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