----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mathias R�sel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "LUTELIST" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 5:11 AM Subject: Re: cement
> > "Manolo Laguillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >> Could it be that "Vihuela" relates with "viola"? I would say yes, > >> absolutely. Vihuela = small (or whatever "-uela" could mean in the > >> spanish Renaissance) viola. > > > > I lack any control of Spanish, unfortunately, but with -uela is a > > diminuitive ending, doesn't that suggest that vihuela is from a word > > like VIHA? > > Mathias > Or BIGA...... Does it suggest an Indo-European or Semitic lineage? > RT I have seen it spelled "biguela" before. How about "Vina" for "Viha". There is a theory that the Romanie-Gypsy were a tribe or even a hired army originally out of India. http://www.thecipher.com/lute-vina-India_2nd-3rdCent.jpg Roger To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
