Re[2]: [tied] fear ( it was hades)

At 3:36:34 PM on Sunday, April 6, 2003, alex_lycos wrote:

> Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

>> Yes, in new-Greek we have he phrice 'fear', util in old
>> one ho phobos

> Strange. I ask myself how should be borrowed such a word
> like "fear". Let see about the english "fear" which in OE
> have had a form like 'fyhrto'. Should they be cognates? I
> mean the greek one and the english one?

No. The Gk presupposes a PIE root with initial *bH (or
maybe *gWH), while the OE presupposes *p. (By the way, Eng
<fear> isn't a reflex of OE <fyrhto>; it's from OE <fæ:r>.)

Brian