loan words
TonyProst at aol.com
TonyProst at aol.com
Thu Jul 15 12:06:43 EDT 1999
In a message dated 7/15/99 5:46:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
jwest at Highland.Net writes:
<<
the latin liturgy makes use of a legitimately latin phrase. that phrase was
taken into a song. those are the facts. There is nothing at all un-latin
about the phrase "kyrie eleison" any more than there is anything un-english
about the word "kindergarten" (a german loan word!)
>>
The question is whether a petitioner to Tiberias (or Sejanus!) would
have used the phrase to him, when asking for mercy for himself of his family.
I expect not.
Regards,
Tony Prost
All Nonnos All Day
http://members.aol.com/tonyprost
More information about the B-Greek
mailing list