From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 45318
Date: 2006-07-11
On 7/11/06, Daniel J. Milton <dmilt1896@...> wrote:German <Bildung> "shaping", "forming" as used in the international
phrase "Bildungsroman" can, as Torsten said, be roughly approximated
by "building", but it is not a cognate thereof, as Abdullah implied.
According to AHD, <Bildung> is from MHG <bildunge> from OHG
<bildunga> from <bilodi> "form", "shape".
From Buck's "Synonyms" "prob. der. of an adj. *bil- 'fitting,
becoming', seen also in 'billig' "cheap". Elsewhere Buck relates this
to various words in other languages including Greek <philos>, but if
there's a postulated I.-E. root, I haven't found it in the obvious
references.
Dan
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No, I didn't implied nothing. I just said to follow the link about English build. Duden gives explicitly Bild: Die Herkunft des nur dt. und niederl. Wortes ist unklar. But, if we have Bilwiss 'Kobold, Zauberer', its not far from the verb 'to build', if we take Alb. <tbame> 'enchantments' and Slavic <c^ini> 'id.', both derivatives of the verb 'to do, to make'.
Konushevci