Re: Odp: Odp: Odp: Semantic fields

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From: Christopher Gwinn

To: cybalist@egroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 6:29 AM

Subject: [cybalist] Re: Odp: Odp: Semantic fields

I think I am getting confused here now, Piotr, so I will restate myself.

 

Pokorny, IEW, page 1079 -

*TEU- (2)

"in freudlichem Sinne die Aufmerksamkeit zuwenden. aufmerken"

Old Irish Tuas-cert "noerdlich (northernly)" > *TEU-STO

Breton Tus "links (left)" > *Teu-sto

 

Welsh Tut "Zauberer(magician)" < *TEU-TO

Old Irish Tuath "left, noerdlich, boese (left, northernly, evil)" < *TEU-TO

Old Irish Tuaith "noerdlich"

 

Incidentally, Pokorny IEW pg. 1080,

*TEU- (with long -E-, as opposed to the *Teu above with short -e-)

"schwellen" (swell)

This is the root for *Teu-t-a from which Irish Tuath "tribe" and  and German Diota derives

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Chris,

 

Thank you very much for the clarification. Actually, there's quite a lot confusion in Pokorny's etyma, mostly because of his tendency to list doubtful "original roots" rather than fully derived lexemes and his conservative Neogrammarian transcription. He was not very careful about his transliterated forms either. Some of the Celtic forms cited above look slighly suspect to me, but I haven't got any reliable reference books at hand to check them. Maybe later.

 

Piotr