Re: Nature, virtus etc. (was: Why borrow 'seven'?)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "loreto bagio" <bagoven20@...>
wrote:

> Going back to Tabi-Y-at, I was wondering if it was related to the
> other T-(M)-b- forms of many languages which has the glosses of
> tomb, temple, mound, time, egg, all, static, nature, natural,
> native. Perhaps also related to (X)-t-r/b. Where X is anything.
>
> E.g. for the glosses natural, (nature, native)
> Latin "naturalis", "nativus",

The Latin words the sense 'born with' - PIE root *genh1 (Pokorny root
566) 'bear'.

> Japanese "tennen"
> Thai "Tam Tham!-Ma"

The exclamation mark in the Thai word is just one dictionary's way of
marking short vowels. The Thai word <dhrrm> /tham 33/,
underlyingly /tham 33 ma? 55/ as the first element of a word, comes
from Sanskrit _dharma_, Pali _dhamma_ 'natural law', from PIE Root
*dHer 'support, hold' (Pokorny 399). I mentioned this earlier in the
thread.

> Vietnamese "Tu-nhien", "that"

A little preliminary work with a dictionary would not have been amiss.

Richard.