Re: Ford -furta- fare

--- In cybalist@egroups.com, "Torsten Pedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

>
> All very interesting, but nobody answered my original question
> which was (should have been): These two word mean the same, but
> according to our sacred knowledge of linguistics they are not
> related (as haben/habeo). Usually these pairs are seen as tests
> of linguistic orthodoxy, a kind of linguistic parallel to the
> English teacher's split infinitives and dangling prepositions.
>
> But the real reason was something I found in Hermann Møller, back
> from, I think 1906. Trying to find a way to relate IE and AA, he
> came up with something he called alternate forms in IE (which means,
> in a single language there would be pairs like habeo/capio).
>
> If anyone is interested (after several "vade retro, satanas", of
> course) I could dig it up next time I'm in the library.
>
> Torsten

It seemes that you, like Godfather, don't believe in mere
coincidence. Well, we have per- 'go forward, go through' and bher-
'carry', from which, as it seemes, *bred- is derived. It's up to you
to decide whether they are related. I've never heard of any semantic
correlation between pVC and bhVC root types in PIE (maybe except mere
onomatopoeic).

Sergei