[tied] Re: bildung

From: squilluncus
Message: 45323
Date: 2006-07-11

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> The
> spelling <ui> came from one of those western dialects of ME that
> retained the rounded front vowel /y/ and attempted to indicate it
> orthographically.
>
It is clear then, that English build is from *bheu.

What to say then about German Bild? Has it something to do
with 'twin', then from *dwi, well known in Latin. But is there any
Germanic evidence of such a development? Or is it perhaps *bheid,
findere, making two out of one?

Any thoughts about yama-, twin, and ima:go?

Lars