Re: das Wort

--- In cybalist@..., "m_iacomi" <m_iacomi@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> > I believe I saw once an attempt to relate Rom. <a gazi> "to see"

to

> > German <Gesicht> "face" (> "view"), from which the Rom. verb

would be

> > derived by back-formation.
>
> If Rom. stands for Romanian, then the verb is <a gãsi> "to find",

with

> a very probable Slavic origin. "To see" is Latin inherited (<a

vedea>).

> Regards,
> Marius Iacomi

Oops. I read that a very long timne ago. What is its Slavic origin?

Torsten