Re: [tied] fresh

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] fresh

> 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

I looked there at the Perseus , this is why I ask. You say "the original
meaning was 'just killed'" even the explanation is at the point 2. At
the point 1 ( in my opinion = primary sense) is "fresh, not decomposed,
of a corpse miraculously preserved"= just fresh.
Being a such ancient word, normaly there should be derivatives of this
word like in German ( see Frischling, Frische, erfrischen, auffrischen).
Which are the derivatives of the Greek 'prosphatos'? Do we find
something between these derivatives related to "killed"?
If not, then the sense "just killed" should be seen just as an
interpretation for anymal food which was fresh killed which is a
particulary sense of "fresh food". What do you think?