Re: PIE *pel- 'to sell' < - > 'to buy'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:

>
> *pel- `to sell, to make money'. 1. Alb. <blej> `to buy' probably

from

> prefixed and suffixed metathetic variant *H1en-+ *ple-n-yo. 2.

Primary

> meaning seems to be preserved in <mbles> `marriage broker, go-

between'

> and especially in expression <m'u martue me mblesí> `to be married

by

> selling, to be sold': Greek polein `to sell': OCS plenu `booty'.

For

> same semantic exchange see the meaning of Hittite <da:-> `to take'

as

> a cognate of PIE *deH3- `to give'. From the point of view of the

buyer

> it is an act of selling, but from the point of view of the seller

it

> is an act of buying. So, both acts denote same action, as in the

case

> of giver and receiver concerning the root *do:-. So, this root

belongs

> to the roots, according to Watkins, that refer to types of

exchange to

> have some descendants referring to the one half, and some

referring to

> the other half, of the exchange relationship. (Pokorny 3b. pel-

803.)

>
> Konushevci

Other examples: English "give", Irish cognate <gaibid> 'takes', both
from *ghabh-;
German <nehmen> 'take', Greek cognate <nemein> 'to apportion out,
distribute', both from *nem-.