Re: [tied] Khaos and Eros

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:

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> Because there is no rest in sexual love 'eros', that was its

primary

> meaning.

For "love" Greeks has he agapesis 'kiss, love', eos and he philia,
that has also the meaning of "friendship"

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> On 7/14/06, Joao S. Lopes <josimo70@...> wrote:
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> > Why not relate Ero:s to "rest" < *hre:- "to rest" ?
> >
> > Joao SL
> >
> > *Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...>* escreveu:
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> > *Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>* wrote:
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> > On 2006-07-13 05:20, Joao S. Lopes wrote:
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> > > Khaos < *g^Hawos? *g^Hayos? *g^HNwos?
> >
> > The PIE 'yawn' verb had a "long diphthong" root, *g^He:(i)-

/*g^Hi:- in

> > Brugmannian terms. Depending on how one analyses such roots in

laryngeal

> > terms, the reconstruction is either *g^Heh1i- or *g^Heih1- (I

favour the

> > latter, but the former is regarded as more orthodox nowadays).

Gk.

> > kHasko:, however, is possibly an unrelated lookalike (from

something

> > onomatopoeic like *gHa(:)n-).
> > _________
> > So would <khaos> come from *g^hHjos from the "yawn" verb, or are

you

> > saying that it is a derivative of <khasko:> which is unrelated

to the "yawn"

> > verb? If this is from *gHa(:)n-, what happened to the nasal?
> >
> > > Ero:s < *erawot- ? *erasot-
> >
> > The root is *h1erh2- (Gk. eramai 'desire, love', adj.

eratós 'desired,

> > loved). The -s- stem nouns in Gk. must originally have been

neut. *eras,

> > anim. *ero:s (*h1érh2-e/os-), as demonstrated by further

derivatives

> > like <erannós> 'lovely' from *eras-no-. The t-stem (ero:t-) is

either a

> > Greek innovation (more likely) or a trace of PIE *-s-/*-t-

alternation

> > in s-stems.
> >
> > Piotr
> > _________________
> > What does the *h1erh2- root mean? Is it "separate, adjoin" as

Abdullah

> > Konushevci reported, or is it closer to "desire, love"? I don't

see how the

> > meaning "desire, love" could have arisen from "separate, adjoin"

or have

> > related words meaning "border" or "dissolve".
> > Andrew
> >
> >
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