Re: [tied] fear ( it was hades)

From: Daniel J. Milton
Message: 20820
Date: 2003-04-07

My Buck's "Synonyms" has:
Rum. 'fricã' fr. Grk. 'phrike' "shivering, shuddering", esp. with
fear. 'Phrisso' "be rough, bristle up, ripple, shiver."
I think Brian's comment below applies to this word, but I haven't
been able to find it in Pokorny. Leiden has an on-line Greek
etymological dictionary which I find impossible to use. If anybody
has mastered it, I'd like to know how.
I've quoted Buck's "A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the
Principal Indo-European Languages" a number of times on Cybalist.
It's fifty years old and maybe out-of-date (and rather old-fashioned
to begin with), but it has a vast amount of information. The
paperback edition for $40 is one of the purchases I"m most pleased
with.
Dan

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:
> At 3:36:34 PM on Sunday, April 6, 2003, alex_lycos wrote:
>
> > Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
>
> >> Yes, in new-Greek we have he phrice 'fear', util in old
> >> one ho phobos
>
> > Strange. I ask myself how should be borrowed such a word
> > like "fear". Let see about the english "fear" which in OE
> > have had a form like 'fyhrto'. Should they be cognates? I
> > mean the greek one and the english one?
>
> No. The Gk presupposes a PIE root with initial *bH (or
> maybe *gWH), while the OE presupposes *p. (By the way, Eng
> <fear> isn't a reflex of OE <fyrhto>; it's from OE <fæ:r>.)
>
> Brian