Re: [tied] das Wort

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 19:45:50 +0100, alexmoeller@... wrote:

>I ask myslef which a connection can be established there among
>slav, germanic and "latin" languages for the word "word".
>
>in the germanic languages a cosntruction on based on "wor" ,
>in slavic we have (go) +wor in latin we have (ad) verb(um)

Germanic and Latin are cognate, both from PIE *werdh-. The Slavic
word, extended from a root *gow-, is unrelated.


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