From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 45525
Date: 2006-07-26
On 2006-07-25 17:58, Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
> If we have complete acordance between Latin <fas est> and Greek
> <themis esti> 'it's right' and complete correspondence between Lat.
> <fa:s> 'divine law, right' and <thimstes> 'laws, rights,
> institutions' , it seems that *dhe:- as input is common for both Latin
> and Greek derivatives, for /*dh/ > Lat. /f/ and /*dh/ > Greek /th/.
But there's no way to derive Lat. /a:/ to *eh1 or *&1. Lat. fa:s is an
s-stem derivative of *bHah2- 'speak, announce'; it belongs together with
<fa:ma>, <fa:tum>, <fa:bula>, and with Gk. pHe:mi etc. Some etymologists
have tried to derive Gk. tHemist- from *dHeh1-, usually as a compound
like *dH&1mi-st(h2) -, but the formal difficulties look insuperable. The
final -st-, strange as it is, seems to be the original stem termination
(Homer has no variant forms).
Piotr
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