Re: [tied] Daimo:n 'Divider' <-> Bog 'Divider' too?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea@...> wrote:

>
> On 15/01/2007 20:29, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
> > Grk. daimo:n 'godlike power' with an original meaning 'divider' and
> > derived it from the Gk. daiomai 'to divide' < PIE *deh2-(i)-
>
> What's the -mon suffix in dai-mon? Where else does it crop up?
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
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PIE *<X>-men means "possesing as its main property, as its single
property (-men) the <X>"

The basic example is h2ek^-men 'stone' => 'possesing as its main
property the <sharpness> *h2ek^-

*mon, *mn, *mo:n, *me:n are different ablaut-grades of -men.


<daimo:n> => "A thing/a person that has as its Main Characteristic
the 'to divide'-action

Marius