[tied] Re: future

From: m_iacomi
Message: 18328
Date: 2003-01-31

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...> wrote:

>> Be as skeptical as you desire and as much as you can: but
>> only if you're aware of genealogies at least *within the
>> Romanian language* [...]
>
> From the semantically point of view is the notion of "future"
> related to the meaning " come" or is this notion related to]
> the exist, being, life?

Semantically, the notion of "future" is obviously correlated with
changement/movement (on the time axis -> evolution). The future can
be seen as a bunch of virtual events which will "come" into reality
at some moment. Movement is often associated with future -- e.g. in
English I may say "I'm _going_ to explain this point" (i.e. in near
future), as well as the French counterpart "Je _vais_ expliquer ce
point". The word <viitor> [derived from veni ('to come') + good ol'
suffix -tor, as in pãzi ('to guard') > pãzitor ('guardian'), suna
('to sound') > sunãtor ('which sounds' - noun), etc.] means simply
"which is coming". When applied to the time axis, "which is coming"
is the future. The link is underlined also by other formulas like:
"ceea ce va sã vinã" ('things which are going to come') which are
slightly different ways of expressing future in Romanian by means
of the same verb.
It's very sad you didn't remember these explanations already given
on another list.

Marius Iacomi