Re: From here to eternity [was: *y-n,W- "subordinate"?]

> That use of "age" in that meaning "period of"
> like in Middle Ages, Stone Age is about 150 years old.
>
> You're trying to sell that this modern meaning is relevant for the
> far past.
> You're wrong.
> Try again. You provide better explanations in general.
>

The *(H)ayw- thing was something cyclical. The "eternal" sense comes
from the sense "lasting through a the span of a whole cycle". Some
cycles were understood as very long.


Torsten