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Originally Posted By: twosleepyI'd rather waste my time with you guys.... ;0)
We're so much pertier than that Paris.
Originally Posted By: twosleepyP.S. In checking for how Paris (the city) was named, it appears there is no connection to Paris (the Greek), but to a tribe of Gauls called Parisii. Couldn't find where that name came from, so if anyone knows, or can find it, I'd be interested!
Yes that is true. From memory it was the Romans who record this name, but I can't quite recall whether it was their own name for themselves (ie a Gaulish word Latinized) or just the name the Romans gave them.
a Gaulish word Latinized
Probably. Also, as with some many other Celtic tribes, there was more than one tribe known as the Parisii, one in Gallia and the other in Britannia, in modern-day East Riding of Yorkshire. The usual etymology is that it is related to Old Irish cuirim 'I place, lay, put' + a suffix -isio. The German philologist and founder of modern Cletic language studies Johann Kaspar Zeuß glosses Parisii as 'efficaces, strenui' and 'Tatkräftigen, Tapferen' ('the vigorous, brave, doughty', link). He posited that it was from an earlier Quarisii, the change of qu to p being a common one in Celtic languages.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
Blinks. How did we get from an Indian man living with his in-laws to ancient Gauls living near Paris? Amazing.
Originally Posted By: The PookBlinks. How did we get from an Indian man living with his in-laws to ancient Gauls living near Paris? Amazing.
Par for the course around here. I challenge you to find a thread longer than about ten posts that hasn't veered drastically from its original point.
It's good dinner party conversation in slo-mo.
Hey let's turn off the slo-mo, I'll meet you at 7:30 at Craving's Bistro. How many should I make the reservation for?
edited for a typo.
Last edited by Zed; 06/24/08 07:00 PM.
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