From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 19362
Date: 2003-02-27
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From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] fresh
> Question: is the Greek 'prosfatos' an ancient Greek word or is it a
modern Greek one?
Ancient.
> If the Greek word is a modern Greek word one there is the posibility it is recently loan into Greek language and it is useless to try to make the etymology trough "pros" and " pHatos".
It's useless to speculate about Greek words if you know so little bout the language.
> Specialy when it gives no sence for "fresh, new, late" these 'towards, near' + 'phatos' = killed.
Take a good dictionary or use the online one at the Perseus site to check the meanings of <prospHatos> in Greek. The definition begins with "fresh, not decomposed, of a corpse miraculously preserved". The original meaning was 'just killed' (of a human or animal), and more abstract meanings like 'recent', 'new' are historically secondary.
Piotr