Re: [tied] Re: Latin anthroponyms

Another nice example involving the same noun is Eng. method <-- Gk. metHodos 'pursuit', literally 'after-path' = met(a)- + -hodos.

Piotr

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> >I don't remember seeing any rough breathings in the
> > middle of Greek words.)
>
> Rough breathings survive in compounds only if the previous letter can show
> it - that means t/tH, k/kH and p/pH. Elsewhere there was no way of spelling
> it. It is debatable whether or not it survived in pronunciation - perhaps
> when it was an obvious compound, it did.
>
> Two interesting words that show this in English are anode and cathode (the
> opposite poles of a battery). Both are compounds of hodos = path, but only
> with the prefix cat'- (="down") could the aspirate be shown. With the
> prefix an'- (="up") there was no way to spell it - and now in English the
> "h" is gone for ever.