From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60304
Date: 2008-09-25
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From: "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
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>> Pokorny isn't the only one: you'll find that Watkins also
>> assigns <cadaver> and related Latin words to *k^ad-. And
>> for good reason: it goes with <cadere> 'to fall; to die'.
>> The verb has an obvious cognate in OInd. <s'ad-> 'abfallen,
>> ausfallen', which points to *k^-, not *k-, and the cognates
>> in general clearly show that 'fall' is the primary sense,
>> 'die' being secondary.
>>
>> Brian
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>
> In case you are not aware of that,
> the mere restatement of the standard point of view will not convince me.
> I disagree that there is a primary sense and secondary sense,
> this story about primary and secondary is not an argument in favor of
> orthodoxy,
> but a consequence of the orthodoxy.
> I'm saying that there are two meanings : to die and to fall.
> Both primary.
>
> Arnaud
>
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By the way,
What is the etymology of Welsh cadfan "warrior" ?
and Cadmon, Catumanus, etc ?
Arnaud