From: Rick McCallister
Message: 62420
Date: 2009-01-08
> From: Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...>You forgot my favorite derivative "bead", originally "a prayer", then the prayer beads
> Subject: [tied] offer-command-announce-awake-aware-inquire-learn-understand-know
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 6:20 PM
> I've always wondered how the IE root *bheudh- can have
> such a rich
> diversity of evolved meanings in the branches in which it
> survived:
> "offer, present, announce, command, forbid" in
> Germanic (and how can
> it have such unrelated meanings in this branch alone);
> "awake" in
> Balto-Slavic and Indic; "be aware" in Indic (not
> to mention a slightly
> different Iranian meaning which I currently forget);
> "inquire, find
> out, understand, know" in Greek. These meanings all
> seem so unrelated
> to each other -- how did they all evolve from a primitive
> meaning
> "awake", if that was the original meaning?
> Particularly the Germanic
> meanings! Is it possible that the Germanic verbs
> (<anabiudan>,
> <faurbiudan>, <biotan>, <intbiotan>,
> <gibiotan>, etc. and in other
> languages) derive from a different but homophonous root?
> Can anyone
> explain to me how the various meanings above all derive
> from the
> meaning "awake", especially the Germanic
> meanings?
>
> Andrew