Re: [tied] Indo-European roots for Latin 'serere' to join together

Thanks for this Glen

You're a champ. Happy new year everyone!

Regards

John

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>
> John:
> >Can anyone tell me if there is an IE etymology for 'serere' to join
> >together?
>
> Yes, there is.
>
> I definitely recall Piotr explaining this root a while back but the
> Yahoo Groups search interface is so dysfunctional that we have to

face

> the facts that its probably lost in a sea of unorganized data
> somewhere in the recesses of Yahoo's dumpy servers.
>
> You should always keep in mind that there is the American Heritage

site

> (http://www.bartleby.com/61/) that houses a small list of IE roots.

It's

> very useful. They mention *ser- "to line up" and the extended form
> *sr-eu- "to flow (as a river)". The latter is the source of Greek
> /rheuma/, Latin /struere/ "to pile up", Sanskrit /srava/ and

Germanic

> *straumaz (> "stream"). I know there are also other extensions of

the

> root but I can't recall them from the top of my memory.
>
>
> - gLeN
>
>
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