--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
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> LIV derives <faveo:> from the root *dHew- 'run, hasten' as its
> iter./caus. *dHow-éje/o- (= Skt. dHa:váyati), which gives a better
> formal fit than Pokorny's derivation.
> Piotr
Could you perhaps provide an account of the semantic history between
"run, hasten" (*dHew-) and "favour, support, side with" (<faveo:>)? I
really don't see how the latter could derive from the former, except
in the meaning "be eager to" of the latter, which perhaps could be
from an entirely different root than the "favour, etc." meanings (i.e.
"favour, etc." could come from *ghow- while "be eager to" could come
from *dHew-, and the resulting formally identical verbs could have
been interpreted as one and the same lexical verb <faveo:>).
Andrew