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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> Whoops! You're right, I meant *g^enh1 :)
>
> But Latin _na:tu:ra:lis_ and _na:ti:vus_ are readily analysed,

even

> when Anglicised, as na:t(o)-u:r(a:)-a:li-s and na:t-i:vu-s. The
> suffixes -u:ra (> English -ure) and -i:vus (> English -ive) are

very

> common additions to the past participle (or should I say

supine?).

> _na:tus_ 'born' is the past participle of _na:scor_ 'be born'.
>
> _na:tus_ has Latin compounds _cogna:tus_ 'relation' and
> _agna:tus_ 'relation' - in these we see the initial *g^. A few
> other zero grade forms come to mind in Latin, such as the
> reduplicated _gigno:_ 'beget' (past participle _genitus_).

Hmmn,... right it seems the roots of nativus and naturalis is nat-.
Well then I have to take a look at these suffixes -ivus and -uralis.
And it seems the Latin (or IE) words are aberrant or new(?) with
respect to the worldwide rendition of 'natural law/order'.

Loreto