Re: Khaos and Eros

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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> > 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".
>
>
> Well, absence makes the heart grow fonder, and then your borders

will

> dissolve.
>
> That was rather elegant. Maybe I should write an etymological
> dictionary? ;-)
>
>
> Torste

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What do you think about erotikos 'hidden love'. So, not publicly,
but separately.
It seems we all need much exercises on semantics.
Take, for example, semitic root hrm 'to ban, to forbid': haram 'evil
thing', mahram 'something forbidden', harem 'inviolable place,
ihram 'state of ritual purity of pilgrims to Mecca',
muharrem 'sacred month'.

Konushevci