TY - JOUR
TI - The story of Caesar revisited
AU - Piwowarczyk, Dariusz R.
TI - The story of Caesar revisited
AB - 
	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.
VL - 2013
IS - Volume 18, Issue 3
PY - 2013
SN - 1427-8219
C1 - 2084-3836
SP - 105
EP - 110
DO - 10.4467/20843836SE.13.007.0944
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-etymologica-cracoviensia/article/the-story-of-caesar-revisited
KW - etymology
KW - Latin
KW - Indo-European
KW - Caesar
KW - diphthong
KW - monophthongization
KW - spelling
KW - borrowing.