From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 62424
Date: 2009-01-09
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "Andrew Jarrette" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: [tied]
offer-command-announce-awake-aware-inquire-learn-understand-know
>
> At 6:20:28 PM on Thursday, January 8, 2009, Andrew Jarrette
> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Try starting from 'to be aware; to make aware', as Watkins
> does. That gives you 'awake', 'announce', 'command',
> 'understand', and 'know' without any difficulty. From
> 'know' to 'inquire' and 'find out' is a short step, as are
> 'present' from 'announce' and 'forbid' from 'command'.
> 'Offer' is an easy extension of 'present'.
>
> Brian
>
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what's the difference between *bheudh and *bheidh ?
A.