%0 Journal Article
%T The story of Caesar revisited
%A Piwowarczyk, Dariusz R.
%J Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia
%V 2013
%R 10.4467/20843836SE.13.007.0944
%N Volume 18, Issue 3
%P 105-110
%K etymology, Latin, Indo-European, Caesar, diphthong, monophthongization, spelling, borrowing.
%@ 1427-8219
%D 2013
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-etymologica-cracoviensia/article/the-story-of-caesar-revisited
%X 
	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.