From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 18332
Date: 2003-01-31
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Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 6:19 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: future
> When applied to the time axis, "which is coming" is the future.
Well, at least it's a common metaphor, though by no means the only one found cross-linguistically. Cf. Polish <przyszl/y> 'future' (a.), etymologically the preterite participle of the Polish verb meaning 'come' (= 'having come'), and Ger. Zukunft (also <künftig> etc.), where the <-kunft> part < *kum-þu- < *gWm.-tu- 'coming, arrival'.
Piotr