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Dariusz R. Piwowarczyk
The story of Caesar revisited
SEC 18 (2013), 105–110

of volume 18

Abstract
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.

BibTeX

@article{Piwowarczyk13,
	author	= {Piwowarczyk, Dariusz R.},
	title	= {The story of \textit{Caesar} revisited},
	journal	= {Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia},
	volume	= {18},
	year	= {2013},
	pages	= {105–110}
}