From: Torsten
Message: 67494
Date: 2011-05-06
>That's not its only sense:
> > the etymology or English cognate of German 'achtung' (attention).
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> No real etymology, though it can be traced back through Middle High
> German and Old High German, and could be related to the Greek
> /oknos/, which means the kind of thinking that leads to delay
> (usually translated 'hesitation').
> /oknos/ would be from PIE* h3ek-, giving German ah- or acht- by
> regular processes. It is tempting to see a connection with PIE
> *h3ekw-, meaning to see, which has many descendant forms in Latin,
> English, and so on.