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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> I was watching on TV how to make Japanese swords. Tempering, by
> plunging the blade into water, is important. I thought of all the
> puzzling substrate "dip" words in Germanic.
> Conclusion: *dhabh-ro-, the origin of Latin faber, Sl. dobryj means
> "tempered" and was used in the beginning of swordblades (and the like).
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> Torsten
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Torsten, of all the processes in smithery, do you really think
plunging in water is important enough to give a name to the profession?
Buck says "Lat. 'faber', general term for worker in hard materials,
including metals, also used with descriptive adjectives to apply to
particular crafts, but in the majority when standing alone
'carpenter', prob. from an original idea of 'one who fits, makes fitting'.
Is there anything objectionable to Pokorny's discussion of 'faber'
under root 371 dhabh-2? (I tried to copy it but have font problems--sorry)
Dan