Latin bardus and gurdus

• Autores: Nicholas Zair
• Localización: Glotta: zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische sprache..., ISSN 0017-1298, Nº. 94, 2018, págs. 311-318
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The origin of the Latin words bardus ‘stupid’ and gurdus ‘stupid’ is examined. It is shown that bardus cannot be borrowed from Etruscan, as previously claimed. It is probably a borrowing from Oscan and is cognate with forms like Greek βραδύς, Lithuanian gurdùs ‘slow’. While gurdus could be a loanword from some unknown language, it could also be the regular result in Latin of *gw ord-o-, an o-stem adjective derived from the same root as the u-stem that lies behind bardus.