Re: Hermes, Beekes, & citing members

Torsten,

Thank you for the response and confirmation that I'm not completely off base, it is appreciated.

Regards,
Aydan

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Aydan" <xthanex@> wrote:
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> > Sorry all, I did a horrible job of cutting & pasting during my
> > previous attempt to ask this question...
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> > Sergei Nikolayev's, Indo-European Etymologic Database at the Tower
> > of Babel website
> > (http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/main.cgi?root=config )
> > gives: the PIE root *swer-(1) "to speak, talk"
> > as the source of Old Greek:
> > hermaneuo
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutics
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> > verdolmetschen, ubersetzen;
> "translate (real time, with interpreter)", "translate (text)"
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> > deuten, auslegen, erklaren,
> http://en.bab.la/dictionary/german-english/deuten
> http://en.bab.la/dictionary/german-english/auslegen
> http://en.bab.la/dictionary/german-english/erklaeren
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> > hermaneu-s m.
> > Dolmetscher, Ubersetzer; Deuter, Ausleger
> See above.
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> > (accents removed for formatting)
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> On the other hand, I don't understand that sentence?
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> > As I read neither Greek nor German, I am uncertain what this states
> > about the various Old Greek terms, but it appears to my patheticly
> > uninformed eyes, to suggest that *swer-(1) might be a possible
> > origin for "Hermes".
> > Am I correct in this assumption?
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> It seems Wikipedia agrees with you.
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> Torsten
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