Re: Sch?ffe I (a few details on O HG)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "G&P" <G.and.P@...> wrote:

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> > 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.
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> Peter
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If you understand German, here's what Kluge's Deutsches Etymologisches Wörterbuch has to say:

"mhd <ahten>, ahd. asächs <ahtôn> "nachdenken, beachten, werten, glauben", afries. <ahtia>, as. <ahtôn>, mnl. nnl. <achten>, ags. <eahtian> "schätzen, beraten, wachen über, preisen", neben Acht f., mhd. <ahte>, ahd. <ahta> "Beachtung, Aufmerken", mnd. afries. <achte>, mnl. <achte>, nnl. <acht>, ags. <eaht> "Rat, Beratung, Schätzung, Wert". Zugrunde liegt der germ. Verbalstamm *ah- in got. <ahjan> "glauben, meinen", <inahs> "verständig" usw. Außergerm. lassen sich gr. <óknos> "Bedenklichkeit" und <okneîn> "zaudern", toch. B <âks> "wach sein" auf idg. *ok- "nachdenken" zurückführen."


Andrew