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.
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etymology
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Latin
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Indo-European
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Caesar
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diphthong
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monophthongization
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spelling
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borrowing
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dc.description.volume
18
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dc.description.number
3
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dc.description.publication
0,5
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dc.identifier.doi
10.4467/20843836SE.13.007.0944
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dc.identifier.eissn
2084-3836
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dc.title.journal
Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia
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eng
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Wydział Filologiczny
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Article
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dc.rights.original
OTHER; inne; ostateczna wersja wydawcy; po opublikowaniu; 24;