Re: Present participle

On 2008-10-12 00:48, Andrew Jarrette wrote:

> 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:>).

LIV identifies the protoform of <faveo:> with the _causative_ of *dHew-,
i.e. *dHow-éje/o- 'cause to move, push forward', which could easily
develop such figurative senses as 'promote' (note its etymology) or
'cheer on, encourage'.

Piotr