Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 54326
Date: 2008-02-29

mind-set is a noun meaning "fixed mentality"
BUT
heart-set works more like an adjective or an adverb
He is heart-set on a career in street sweeping.
They both come from similar idiomatic expressions of
verb+noun but have evolved in different ways.


--- alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
> *mn.s-dHeh1 'mindset' => Skt. me-dha': (noun)
> *k^red-dHeh1- 'heartset' => Skt. s'rad-dha':




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